IMHO, the biggest feature that Tapestry is missing is solid dynamic component generation. Time and time again you'll see devs asking the same question in the forums, "how do I dynamically generate..." Each time someone points out the block, the for, or the if constructs. Yet these always seem way more difficult than they should be. Even with these tools, content management systems are notoriously difficult to build with Tapestry. Since Tapestry makes most things easier, this seems to be ironic. I began using Tapestry because most of my development time was cut in half, but the dynamic form development tasks I had to perform were tripled in time! Now, I could be the crappiest dev on earth, but I doubt it considering all the trouble everyone else has with this task and Tapestry. Because Tapestry is static, the very idea of dynamic components seems to leave a bad taste in Howard's mouth (and the mouths of die-hard enthusiasts). Yet it shouldn't, dynamic form generation is a very real, and fairly common task. It should be a first class citizen in the land of Tapestry.
Just to make sure the tone of this post isn't misunderstood: I love Tapestry. Yet, everything can stand some measure of improvement/rethinking. On 3/3/06, Mark Stang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look at http://www.nextapp.com (a.k.a. echo2). > > regards, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Apache [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri 3/3/2006 5:04 AM > To: tapestry-user@jakarta.apache.org > Subject: How to improve Tapestry > > I think Tapestry already makes a big step forward > but still there is a lot of things that could be made more dynamic and free > programmers of templates and component definitions. > > In my opinion everything could be in the database instead of configuration > files. > > In my idea world there should only be Java Classes > and no XML/Html/Page files. > > I only want to tell the system to "genrate a form with the fields I tell you" > and to tell it which fields are editable - the rest should be done > automatically. Maybe you could tell how to order or align them, but I dont > want to write any html templates. > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Sent from www.TapestryForums.com > > Read this topic online here: <<topic_link>> > > http://www.tapestryforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=14479#14479 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
