Yes. I have had this too, especially on projects that have a full test
suite. It's great. :)

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:33 +0200, Marilen Corciovei wrote:
> 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.
> > > 
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