Re: abstract or no

2007-08-22 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Danie, Thanks for suggeseting T5, after one day learning, somehow I know how to create a basic T5 app, cool framkework. was reading the book "Enjoying Web development with Tapestry" before, after several chapters, I found myself enjoying nothing, with all those diagrams, xml specs, etc.. T5 is

Re: abstract or no

2007-08-20 Thread Daniel Jue
If you can wait for AJAX functionality (late 2007?) , I would say go with Tapestry 5. If you need AJAX immediately, the latest Tapestry 4 is best. Tapestry 5 is the "next generation" Tapestry, and the T4 code is not directly compatible. That said, your T4 code isn't completely useless either. T

Re: abstract or no

2007-08-20 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the reply, I'm learning Tapestry 4, from those samples I saw, it's ok to use either abtract or not as page class, so which one is better? maybe non abstract class to be compatible with Tapestry 5? I'm just evaluating frameworks for a coming project, is it advisable to use Ta

Re: abstract or no

2007-08-20 Thread Daniel Jue
Hi Tapestry 4 relied more on abstract classes. In Tapestry 5, you are usually writing concrete classes -- tapestry does it's magic on all the classes under /pages. You can still have an abstract class to base your pages on, but that class should probably go in /base instead of /pages, since it wo