Hi all, In a recent thread on T5, Howard said the only thing he asked for in return is to see Tapestry get some exposure. So, in that vain, I'm announcing the release of a small product based on Tapestry 4 here.
Briefly, we make a product called the WebReboot. We provide an API for integrating the product with custom software. Up until releasing this development server, the only way to program with the WebReboot was for each developer to have one of his own. It was a bad situation overall. To alleviate the problem we created a Tapestry-based app called the WebReboot Development Server [1] that emulates the hardware and lets people develop their applications far more easily. Anyway, what I think is interesting about this is that rather than using Tapestry internally, we're distributing it for our customers to use. So, people that may not even be Web developers will be running a Tapestry-powered application. To be honest, going into this project, we weren't sure Tapestry was going to be the best fit. Particularly, we needed fine-grain control of the URLs, which has traditionally been a bit of a weakness for Tapestry. However, the ability to package everything up as a standalone app was a major selling point, beating out alternatives, such as Django. As it turned out, we took care of the URLs with a simple filter and Tapestry was a perfect fit otherwise. We're quite pleased with the result and hope that this release will somehow help the Tapestry community. [1] http://dev.servprise.com/ -- Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
