After Tapestry 4 is final, the next project needs to be to create a
comprehensive developers toolset IMO. It's the wizards and
autopromts that
get the beginners roped in. Spindle would seem to make a logical
place to
start.
Good. Even better: aggressively removing configuration and
redundancy, and with it the *need* for wizards. To my mind, a wizard
is usually an indicator of a failure to be simple in underlying
constructs. In a ridiculously perfect world, a tool's parts are so
clear in their purpose and clear in their usage that it's obvious how
to combine them to achieve any desired end, and there's no need for
hand-holding.
IMO, this idea of minimal configuration and minimal infrastructure
overhead is, more than anything else, what Java tools can learn from
RoR. Tap 4 has made great strides in eliminating configuration and
redundancy, and is way ahead of most Java tools at this point. But
there are still many miles of potential simplification left!
Cheers,
Paul
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