I'm new to Tapestry and have just started working with it. My background is WebObjects so most of my question will come from that perspective.
The application I'm developing will be doing some background processing with the UI providing monitoring and control functions. In WebObjects, we would use an single Application instance that is created when the web application is first started. We would store the objects required to access and control the back ground processing. This Application instance is then available in in each request-response loop through a Session object, or through a global static method. Is this same model provided by the ApplicationServlet class in Tapestry? Is there a single instance of this object and if so, how can I get it? Is it common practice to subclass this class and then do all your own application specific logic in the derived class? Thanks, Dave.
