Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-31 Thread Andy Blower
Thanks for your concern Rob, but I'm pretty comfortable evaluating things myself and have already read that discussion. The backward compatibility history of Tapestry will certainly be taken into consideration. (that was the distraction I mentioned) Sometimes it's better to break backwards compati

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Gerzabek
Hi Rob or however you are! Nice to see you spicing up this list ;) Your comments are always very thoughtful so everybody on this list can feel how you from your deepest heart care about people on this list as well as the evolution of Tapestry. Thank you for your invaluable contribution! Rea

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-31 Thread Rob Smeets
Hi Andy, Be wise and dig around the Internet to find answers to your questions and don't turn to this list since they won't offer you a non-biased answers. For a starter go to theserverside.com where recently a discussion was held on Tapestry. The link is: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread

RE: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Jonathan Barker
e of an issue in the future. I also see it being an issue for adoption in larger shops where there is a separation of roles. Jonathan > -Original Message- > From: Angelo Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:37 PM > To: users@tapestry.apache.

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Ektschn
Andy Blower wrote: > > 2) How easy is it to add custom AJAX interactions? I'm thinking of > interactions like checking a checkbox to mark a search result, return > success and visually change the appearance. > For this I would advise you to use t5components - an ajax-enabled component package.

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Fernando, I think so, if you want to be wisiwig, use regular tags, but programmers turn to use the component tags for that as it is easier to read, so that's really a 'policy' issue, if it's a team work i think regular tags are better. Angelo Fernando Padilla wrote: > > I am actually using

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Fernando Padilla
I am actually using this syntax, so that I should get the best of both worlds. Angelo Chen wrote: Hi Jonathan, Initially I use dreamweaver to design the page, and make it a point to use regular tags like: my Link , this will make it easier for me to go back to dreamweaver for page update, b

RE: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Jonathan, Initially I use dreamweaver to design the page, and make it a point to use regular tags like: my Link , this will make it easier for me to go back to dreamweaver for page update, but later I found out that I started to write my link and not coming back any more to dreamweaver, I fire

RE: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Jonathan Barker
Jonathan > -Original Message- > From: Andy Blower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:45 AM > To: users@tapestry.apache.org > Subject: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions > > > Hi there, I'm evaluating Tapestry (among others) f

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Andy Blower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, I'm evaluating Tapestry (among others) for the web framework we'll > use at my company for the next 5 years or so. We've used Struts 1 for the > last 5-6 years and it's served us well, even if it was higher mai

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Lake
Andy, you should take a look at tapestry jumpstart by geoff callender: http://files.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/ I only wish there were a demo server of this somewhere because the webapp itself will show its template + class in the browser. -mike On Mar 29, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Andy Blow

Re: [T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Angelo Chen
Hi Andy, Definately you should go Teaptesry 5, not 4.x. with 6 years experience you should have no problem trying out the tutorials for a few days and see if Tapestry 5 works for you, tutorials are trivial but you can always find a use case to test Tapestry 5's features to see if it suits your ne

[T5] Tapestry evaluation + questions

2008-03-29 Thread Andy Blower
Hi there, I'm evaluating Tapestry (among others) for the web framework we'll use at my company for the next 5 years or so. We've used Struts 1 for the last 5-6 years and it's served us well, even if it was higher maintenance than was first apparent. I have spent over two days reading about Tapestr