> I have never heard any first-hand accounts of Tapestry being all that great > to work with. I have never used it myself, but I have a couple of buddies > that work at a company that develops management software for doctors. They > are in the process of re-writing one of the web apps from the ground up > using Tapestry and all I hear is what a nightmare Tapestry is to work with. > This is from people who I consider top notch developers. I can't give you > any specifics, so you can take it for what it is worth. For me, Wicket has > been a joy to work with from day one and it feels very uncomfortable when I > have to work on web applications that are not written in Wicket.
I've never worked with T myself, but read a book on it and browsed through the source code. The funny thing is that I was about to start a proof of concept in it for the company I worked for three years ago. But Johan just got out of a project that used it, and explained some of the problems it had (T 3). So we took a look at JSF, didn't like that either and decided to forget about proposing a new framework (though we had some serious maintenance issues with our model 2 based apps). Then Johan (again) found Wicket a couple of months later and we agreed that this was exactly what we were looking for, even though it was still in pre-pre-pre-alpha. Anyway, for T's defense, my hunch is that it is still a hell of a lot better than using model 2 frameworks. Especially now that I've been working with Wicket for a while, there is just not a single thing I find good or useful about them. Stripes provides a programming model that at least fixes some of the most annoying things that exist in the other model 2 frameworks, but still, the concept of model 2 is utterly broken imo. And T *was* one of the first Java frameworks to try to provide a better programming model. Gotta give HLS credit for that :) My 2c, Eelco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
