options include L<Data::FormValidator|Data::FormValidator> and
L<HTML::FillInForm|HTML::FillInForm>.
-Here, we will make use of the L<HTML::Widget|HTML::Widget> to not only
-ease form creation, but to also provide validation of the submitted
-data. The approached used by this part of the tutorial is to slowly
-incorporate additional L<HTML::Widget|HTML::Widget> functionality in a
-step-wise fashion (we start with fairly simple form creation and then
-move on to more complex and "magical" features such as validation and
+Note that HTML::Widget is no longer maintained.
+L<HTML::FormFu|HTML::FormFu> was developed as a replacement. There is
+an example HTML::FormFu application at
+L<http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/examples/Advent07FormFu/final/Fu/Fu-0.01.tar.gz>.
+Another popular alternative for HTML FormFu is
+L<Catalyst::Controller::Formbuilder|Catalyst::Controller::Formbuilder>
+which is used in the L<Catalyst
+Book|http://www.packtpub.com/catalyst-perl-web-application/book>.
+
+Here, we will make use of the
+L<HTML::Widget|HTML::Widget> to not only ease form creation, but to
+also provide validation of the submitted data. The approached used by
+this part of the tutorial is to slowly incorporate additional
+L<HTML::Widget|HTML::Widget> functionality in a step-wise fashion (we
+start with fairly simple form creation and then move on to more
+complex and "magical" features such as validation and
auto-population/auto-saving).
B<Note:> Part 8 of the tutorial is optional. Users who do not wish to
=back
+=head1 IMPORTANT NOTE
+
+Since this tutorial was written, there has been a new Authentication
+API released (Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication version 0.1 and later).
+Some of this tutorial does not work with this API, and requires
+minimal changes. For an example application that uses the new API see
+L<http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/NewAuthApp/NewAuthApp-0.01.tar.gz>. It
+is recommended that you read this tutorial first, and then download
+the source code linked above to understand the differences.
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Now that we finally have a simple yet functional application, we can