Great ideas and observations, Thiago. I especially like your points
about adopting the Java EE transaction annotations (and I'd like to
see a tapestry-jpa module), and modules for JFreeChart and
JasperReports.
Geoff
On 17/02/2009, at 10:02 AM, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo wrote:
Hi!
I would like to thank all confidence you put on me. I'll do my best
to not let you down. :)
It is a honor to me to join the Tapestry development team. I'm very
passionate about this framework and I recommend it every time I get
a chance. I've done two presentations about Tapestry in Belo
Horizonte local events, one of them back in August, 2007. Even my
professional life revolves around it. I worked a little with T4 and
I'm a T5 user since T5.0.5, even earlier. I work part time in a
commercial project that uses Tapestry and the Ars Machina Project (http://www.arsmachina.com.br/project
), which includes some T5-related packages. I have some personal
projects, all of them using Tapestry or having some relation to it.
By the way, I invite everyone to take a look at the Ars Machina
Project, specially Tapestry CRUD. I started it as a way to provide
some concepts that are not present in Tapestry, but, in my humble
opinion, I think they would fit very well If you think it is worth,
I'm willing to donate it or parts of it to the Tapestry project. All
feedback is welcome, positive or negative.
I have a dream of having a full application stack built on Tapestry
IoC, a little bit like Spring. I like Spring a lot, but T-IoC is
awesome. At the same time, very easy and very powerful. With its
distributed configuration and AOP support, T-IoC provides an almost
perfect infrastructure for building truly convention-over-
configuration, drop-a-JAR-in-the-classpath-and-it's-working packages
and applications. The first steps is already done with Tapestry-
Hibernate and its transaction support. But I think Tapestry would
benefit a lot to have an implementation-agnostic transaction
framework. We could reuse the Java EE transaction annotations for
better compatibility.
We could also build some simple official integration with other
frameworks like JFreeChart and JasperReports. Marketing-wise, we
could attract more users when they visit the site and they read that
their favorite frameworks are supported by Tapestry, even when we
know how easy you can do the integration yourself.
Besides these larger projects, I also want to help the team to
address some issues that could improve the Tapestry user experience.
I also want to contribute to the documentation. Some questions in
the mailing list are about things that are not easy to find in the
docs.
See you!
--
Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Independent Java consultant, developer, and instructor
http://www.arsmachina.com.br/thiago
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