Why should I use Bread::Board

As applications grow so the management of resources and their dependencies becomes more of a burden. Making sure all your components are properly initialized, in the right order and at all times that you need them, can become a twisty maze. Bread::Board is intended to help you manage this twisty maze and remove the need for you to manage this manually.

Take your typical Catalyst application, the Catalyst framework itself contains its own mini IoC framework through the component subsystem. Catalyst will manage your models and views making sure that they will be available when you need them in the controllers. Catalyst makes all this easy to manage through its configuration system. This is great inside your Catalyst application, but what about outside of it? Any sufficiently complex web application will have a set of scripts and/or command-line applications to help support it. At this point you are left to your own devices and must manage these components and their dependency chains on your own.

By decoupling IoC into its own stand-alone subsystem it becomes possible to get that same ease-of-use you get inside something like a Catalyst application, outside of it.

This, in a nutshell, is what Bread::Board aims to provide.