Looks good Kevin! :) On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:52 -0400, Kevin Menard wrote: > Hi all, > > In a recent thread on T5, Howard said the only thing he asked for in return > is to see Tapestry get some exposure. So, in that vain, I'm announcing the > release of a small product based on Tapestry 4 here. > > Briefly, we make a product called the WebReboot. We provide an API for > integrating the product with custom software. Up until releasing this > development server, the only way to program with the WebReboot was for each > developer to have one of his own. It was a bad situation overall. To > alleviate the problem we created a Tapestry-based app called the WebReboot > Development Server [1] that emulates the hardware and lets people develop > their applications far more easily. > > Anyway, what I think is interesting about this is that rather than using > Tapestry internally, we're distributing it for our customers to use. So, > people that may not even be Web developers will be running a > Tapestry-powered application. > > To be honest, going into this project, we weren't sure Tapestry was going to > be the best fit. Particularly, we needed fine-grain control of the URLs, > which has traditionally been a bit of a weakness for Tapestry. However, the > ability to package everything up as a standalone app was a major selling > point, beating out alternatives, such as Django. As it turned out, we took > care of the URLs with a simple filter and Tapestry was a perfect fit > otherwise. We're quite pleased with the result and hope that this release > will somehow help the Tapestry community. > > [1] http://dev.servprise.com/ > -- Dan Adams Senior Software Engineer Interactive Factory 617.235.5857
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