VITES

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Introduction

VITES™ comprises three core components: Air Traffic Control, the Rules Engine and the Response Engine. These are written in Perl and designed to run under a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl) environment, though, with a bit of tweaking, there's no reason you could not get it to work in other environments; even Windows/IIS/SQL Server/ActivePerl if you were feeling suicidal (we jest; each to his or her own!).

Why Perl?

This is a question that we often get asked, though normally by non-technical people and usually suffixed with "why not PHP/ASP?". Since the bulk of the system is not actually web-facing, that pretty much rules out PHP and ASP; it is not the task they were designed to perform. "Why not C?" would be a harder position to defend but the answer, as with most projects, is pretty simple: we can write Perl and it does the job! Of course, we have the huge additional benefit of an enormous and well-tested open-source code base in the CPAN depository. There is little point in re-inventing the wheel and certainly none if your wheel would end up square! VITES™ relies heavily on the DBI and Net::Server modules (amongst others) from the CPAN.

So on to the components:

VITES™ Air Traffic Control »