I agree as well. It's worth the $20, and keep in mind that any updates to his book are included in that price for the year. Well worth it...
Frank Russo Senior Developer FX Alliance, LLC > -----Original Message----- > From: Jabbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 5:08 AM > To: Tapestry users > Subject: Re: Learning Tapestry > > > We use this at my place. It is indespensible for tapestry 4 users. > > On 16/12/05, adasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kent's book. > > All the developers here are using it. > > Bear in mind that the picture you should have is of components and > > objects. They are defined in three places, html, page/component > > specification (slightly complicated by possible annotation > instead), > > java. These three are bound together in varying quantities, > but always > > together. Note about annotation, it is telling you "I > belong in here" > > in other words, the same binding together. A component is: > > a) acted upon by the framework which does a lot of work for > you, but you > > must be aware of the services it provides. > > b) finds its place on an object graph tree through > definitions in the T > > hivemodule.xml. So what does that mean? The services > defined in hivemodule > > may be seen as arcs on a graph. For instance, if security > is defined in > > hivemodule, then every component that *pulls* in that > service is effectively > > a node on the security graph arc. There are several such > arcs. They are > > connected to the application through their definition, for > instance whether > > they are singletons thread local, or (many) other attributes. > > These conceptualisations are off the top of my head. > > Please shoot me down if anyone disagrees or can put it > better. I hope there > > is nothing here misleading? > > Adam > > > > On 16/12/05, John Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Our developers also recommend Kents book. What they > really liked is > > > it starts with setting up Eclipse from scratch, so you start the > > > exercises with things looking exactly the same. > > > > > > Don't worry about the learning curve, I don't think it is much > > > longer than Struts to do the basic stuff. You'll get a > form up and > > > running in no time. You hit the curve when you want to do > something > > > not so basic, then you can use the support list. :) > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks > > Jabbar Azam > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
