Hi, For the one who are interested in, I have written a first article on how we have secured Tapestry Pages in wooki with Spring Security :
http://spreadthesource.com/2010/01/securing-tapestry-5-pages-with-spring-security-2-x-part-i/ Best Regards, Christophe Cordenier. Developper of Wooki @wookicentral.com 2009/12/30 Newham, Cameron <cameron.new...@bl.uk> > > Interesting. > > I'd hardly call myself even an advanced-intermediate Tapestry user (some > of the stuff you guys talk about is way over my head!) but really, is it > that difficult to create a Dispatcher and custom page annotations?! > > I included simple security with roles very early on in my webapp by > going the page annotation route because it was a) understandable and b) > simple to implement by following the examples I'd seen. I had even less > of an understanding of Tapestry than I do now. > > I found it very easy to understand and code, and it works so well. I > shudder to think how long it would have taken ploughing through > documents on security solutions, like Spring Security, when all I wanted > was half a dozen roles and some way to mark my pages as general viewing > or requiring login under a certain role. > > As I've said all along, I think the only thing lacking big time for > Tapestry is clear, easy to understand documentation with good simple > examples of each feature. That said - I had no troubles with the above > security stuff (and I didn't even have to look at Tapestry source code > ;-) > > Rather than providing large cumbersome bolt-ons for features that may > not even solve all problems, I'd rather see well-defined methods and > example solutions for particular problems which allows scope for people > to customise if they so wish. Isn't that an example of "convention over > configuration"? ;-) It would also be far quicker than developing modules > that try to be all things to all people - and perhaps lessen the > perceived gap between tech. like Wicket and Tapestry in a much shorter > time period. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: p...@sartini-its.com [mailto:p...@sartini-its.com] On Behalf Of Piero > Sartini > Sent: 24 December 2009 20:34 > To: Tapestry users > Subject: Re: About T5 integration modules > > ... > > Howard, I think people are looking for these kind of integrations > because there is no tapestry module allowing them to secure there > pages. Of course you may argument that it is easy to build a > Dispatcher and define some custom annotations. That's true if you > managed to understand how these things work. But if you've just > started with tapestry, in my experience this is not that easy. Then > you remember about Spring Security or any other solution you are used > to and try to make use of it in your new tapestry-world. > > ... > > Piero > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
