POE is a framework for cooperative, event driven multitasking in Perl.
POE originally was developed as the core of a persistent object server and runtime environment. It has evolved into a general purpose multitasking and networking framework, encompassing and providing a consistent interface to other event loops such as Event and the Tk and Gtk toolkits.
POE is a mature framework for creating multitasking programs in Perl. It has been in active development since 1998. It has been used in mission-critical systems such as internetworked financial markets, file systems, commerce and application servers.
