Hello Alfonso, Disclaimer: I'm not very familiar with struts and faces because I refuse to use anything that relies on XML for more than initial configuration.
So, t5. I will focus on things that I personally find less than ideal. I don't do this because I dislike tapestry ( I like it!) but I think for someone deciding on a framework it's important to know the full story. A lot of people will say that it's a component-oriented framework which is of course correct. However, tapestry has a very specific idea about what a component is and how they should behave. For one, components are basically singletons so you can never have the same component twice on the page. You can have it render twice with different parameters which can accomplish the same thing but makes it necessary to careful manage the components state. T5 Components also do not abstract away the request / response / request cycle that is the bane of all web-developers. So, again, careful state management is necessary especially in cases where you have form-containing components in a loop. These things are not showstoppers by any means but until one has completely absorbed the t5 component model it can be painful to work with it. That of course is not a fault in tapestry's fault, it just a thing to look out for. What I do think is a real problem is the lack of recursion in components. It's not possible to have a component contain itself even indirectly. There are workarounds for specific cases (I think t5.3 contains a dynamic tree component) but if you plan on doing anything that would require full component recursion you should consider carefully if you want to go ahead with using tapestry. Now, don't misunderstand, I still think that tapestry is great, especially how easy ajax becomes. I also think that the framework itself is very stable and contains very few errors and runs quite fast. So, if you can work with the component model, yes, tapestry is absolutely ready for production. Kind Regards, Wulf -----Original Message----- From: Alfonso Quiroga [mailto:alfonsose...@gmail.com] Sent: Sonntag, 11. September 2011 10:56 To: Tapestry users Subject: tapestry ready for production? Hi! I've used tapestry 5.0 some time ago, in a small app at home. Now in my work I've to decide which framework we will use for a state application on internet. I've a lot of experience with struts2, I can just choose that, but I prefer the component model against the action model. 1) Is tapestry 5.3 a good choice for a site, where 2 o 3 web developers will be developing? 2) I'm NOT an expert in tapestry, and I know the "static structure, dynamic behavior" has some limits, which are this limits? 3) Finally, in the future, in my job I will need some widgets that could use ajax, is hard to accomplish this? (in struts2 is really easy) Thanks in advance, Alfonso --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
