The idea is that there's no need for a catalyst model to be anything other than a line or two of glue. using this module ensures that model classes are separate from the rest of the application and therefore are well-abstracted, reusable, and easily testable.

right now there are too many modules on cpan that are catalyst-specific. most of the models would be better written as a class that handles most of the functionality with just a bit of glue to make it work nicely with catalyst. catalyst::model::adaptor aims to make integrating that class with catalyst trivial, so there's no extra work involved in makint the model generic.

catalyst is an elegant model-view-controller web application framework written in perl.