What I think is also very important is not only that you develop fast but that you can maintain your code even years after the initial development. As I recently found myself with a 1.5 years old tapestry code it was still extremely clear to me where to find and modify everything.
Len www.len.ro On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:15 -0500, Dan Adams wrote: > Tapestry, Hibernate, and Spring is a great combination. We use them > extensively here in a number of applications and have had a great deal > of success with them. They complement each other very well. Although > Tapestry uses hivemind you can still easily use Spring to manage your > application state as we do. We also make heavy use of annotations which > makes development much easier than using the xml configurations. Here's > some recommended reading based on the books I have read: > > Java Persistence with Hibernate > Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry > Tapestry in Action (older but gives a better overview of Tapestry and > it's purpose) > Pro Spring > > I would also *strongly* recommend that you investigate using HtmlUnit to > test your application. Our development environment runs in Jetty and > HSQLDB and we have had a lot of success with using TDD with HtmlUnit to > get 99-100% test coverage. > > Once you get set up I hope your experience is close to mine; it's a > great development environment and you'll be amazed at how fast you can > develop applications. > > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:09 -0500, Maldonado, Daniel CW2 NGCT wrote: > > After playing with C# and .NET for a while our group has decided that we > > need > > some Java web apps to make our applicatons "enterprise" friendly and to get > > buy-in from our peers who refuse to use .NET. > > > > I was thinking about using Tapestry and Hibernate to help me with some of > > our > > issues. > > However, I have heard that Spring is a great framework as well. > > > > I know that I have a lot of reading to do but if someone on this list could > > give me their perspective (from experience) about which one to use I would > > really appreciate the help and possibly save me a LOT of time. > > > > Are there any benefits to using Tapestry and Spring together? > > > > Would it be easier to just stick with Tapestry and Hibernate? > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
