Mason Documentation

Manuals

 • Introduction
Introduction and basic installation.
 • Developer's Manual
This manual is written for the Mason developer. It describes how to write, run, and debug Mason components.
 • Administrator's Manual
This manual is written for the web master or system administrator. It describes how to install, configure, and tune a Mason system.

Reference

 • Parameters
List of all configuration parameters.
 • Request
The Request API is the gateway to all Mason features not provided by syntactic tags.
 • Component
The Component API allows you to examine components loaded into memory.
 • CGIHandler
The CGIHandler makes helps when using Mason in CGI scripts.
 

Advanced

 • Interp
The Interp controls the other Mason objects.
 • ApacheHandler
The ApacheHandler glues mod_perl and Mason together.
 • Resolver
The Resolver converts component paths to components. You can subclass this to change where components come from.
 • Subclassing
The Subclassing document explains how to subclass core Mason classes.