The question is very relevant. The concern of the project should be to build
out the business functionality using existing tools. If the tools in
question are not yet released and in production, there is a very legitimate
concern that the maintenance of the tool will become a partial focus.
Tapestry may be a compelling offering technologically, but it has many other
factors going against it - lack of a developer mindshare, incompatible
releases in the past, etc. We have used Tapestry for big projects - but we
are still using T3 since T4 and T5 are completely incompatible. You cannot
push beta software past project stakeholders unless that beta software is
also providing you with competitive advantage. T5 has some able competitors
in Wicket and JSF/Stripes, etc while still lacking an ajax foundation for
instance. So the competitive advantage is not clear cut.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Shneyderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Roadmap
The one question I could not answer without looking ridiculous was "What
happens to our multi-million dollar project if Howard is hit by a bus
tomorrow"
I think the question is irrelevant. The question you should be answering:
Is the current base usable enough to push through on the project?. A
relevant after-question (if answer to the above is not exactly) to answer
how easy it is to add the features you are missing if you have to. And
how easy it is to poke through the tapestry's source-base to fix bugs that
might exist and you will find during the project's development.
If you can cross off HLS as your dependency then t5 is probably the best
choice to make from what's available out there :-)
Alex.
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