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 Tapestry history and general thoughts about past and future which has proved rather distracting. I'm really not sure whether I should evaluate 4.1 or 5 because the documentation and intro/tutorial material isn't ready yet for 5 and I'm completely new to component oriented frameworks. If I evaluated 4.1, would that be valid for us still to go on to use 5? It's really hard to get a handle on the differences of two things you don't yet understand!
I have three (more specific) questions: 1) What methods are known for implementing webpage templates in Tapestry (e.g. banner, nav, sidebar, content, footer) and is there one considered 'best practice'? 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. 3) Is it practical to have base classes containing common functionality, which are extended by very terse page classes along with actual page templates or am I thinking about this wrong? With the only T5 examples being so trivial, it's really hard to get a bigger picture view at the moment, but I am very intrigued. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-T5--Tapestry-evaluation-%2B-questions-tp16368331p16368331.html Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
