Hi Fernando,
I'm not Matthias and I'm also currently only evaluating androMDA but maybe I 
can share my thoughts with you as well ;-)

I just looked at the Tapestry website, and I think it's a very interesting 
technology, though it reminds me alot of XMLC:
http://xmlc.enhydra.org/

In XMLC you write normal HTML/WML etc. pages and mark the parts that you want 
to be dynamic with standard HTML 4.0 id attributes like this:
<td id="name">John</td>
 
The HTML pages are then processed by the XMLC engine and turned into XML trees 
which can be modified and then rendered to the browser.

This way you can, for example, let the designers add mockup data to the pages 
just to demonstrate how the page should look (also nice for customer 
presentations!) and then have your program automatically remove the mockup.

For androMDA this could mean that one could generate HTML pages that contain
test data (which is probably associated with the entites!) and use these pages 
for presentations without the need to install everything on an application 
server.

I used XMLC about two years back on a project together with Struts. We had a 
helper class that automatically filled the HTML tags that where marked with 
an id attribute with the corresponding values from the form bean.

I think this is a very nice and efficient way to write web applications, since 
it truely separates the presentation part from the programming part.

So, if Tapestry does all that and one could as well combine it with Struts I 
would really like to see a cartridge that generates HTML pages instead of 
JSPs for the WebPage Stereotype :-)

Cheers,

Mark




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