Now I really wish I had been at SeaJUG, but a flat tire got in my way.
In any case, I think Tapestry is a fantastic concept, but in my experience
the sheer lack of support (online docs, forum support, books, training)
makes it a poor sell to those making decisions. Not to mention changes
from 3.0 -> 4.0 and proposed changes in 4.1 and 5.0 all makes for a high
maintenance, low reuse, and generally dirty migration path (imho).
I was really curious to hear the JSF war stories. As the documentation
(books/examples), training, and support of JSF is fantastic compared to
Tapestry.
Konstantin Ignatyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/22/2006 10:50 AM
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promoting Tapestry
Just want to share:
last night here at Seattle Java User group we had a round table
discussion where people were presenting WEB UI frameworks they use and
tried to highlight things they love about them. There were many:
Millstone, Barracuda, echo2, JSF, Struts, Tapestry, Tiles/Sitemesh, DWR,
RubyOnRails
Every presenter had about 6-8 minutes for a “sales pitch” and at the end
people answered the question:
If you were a king and decide what framework to use for next project,
which framework will you use? (People voted once only for just one
framework)
Tapestry – 15;
Struts – 5;
JSF – 3;
The rest got zero or 1 votes;
I could attribute Tapestry's warm reception to my presenter skills :)
but in reality it is the Howard's hard work and Tapestry community make
the framework so appealing to developers.
I ask everybody to speak about Tapestry more frequently on occasions and
this way we all will benefit from wider Tapestry adoption.
Konstantin Ignatyev
PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen
million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of
tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between
forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil,
add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population
by 263,000
Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs
a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State
University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206)
