I would make exactly the same analysis. I don't know many people that uses Tapestry... And the book is much too old (even for the 5.0.x). The good thing is that all the people I showed Tapestry to and tried to work with it now prefers it :)
Martin Craig St. Jean-4 wrote: > > Well, I've worked at a couple of places and used both Struts and JSF in > the > workplace. I'm the only one that I know that develops using Tapestry (for > personal use), and maybe 1 or 2 people had heard of it (prior to me > telling > them about it). So my guess? Probably a low single digit percentage when > looking at all JEE shops. > > And, now that you mention Tapestry in Action, it would be great to get a > new > book out there! I realize that documentation like that is expensive, so > maybe Formos or yourself starts a place for donations? The WIKI is so-so, > and the component references are decent, but it would be really nice to > have > something that actually shows the power of Tapestry, along with best > practices, in 1 place such as a book. > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Here's a question: how many people are using Tapestry? And how do you >> figure out how many people are using Tapestry? >> >> When asked, I answer what I think is an honest answer: there's >> probably 1000 - 2000 teams using Tapestry ... but mostly I pulled that >> number out of the air. That would be one team for every five copies of >> "Tapestry in Action" sold, but that's now an old book. There's at >> least an order of magnitude from Tapestry to Struts. I wonder how T5 >> compares to SpringMVC or Grails? >> >> So, what would be YOUR estimate and YOUR methodology for determining >> the number of Tapestry coders out there? >> >> -- >> Howard M. Lewis Ship >> >> Creator of Apache Tapestry >> Director of Open Source Technology at Formos >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-big-is-the-Tapestry-community--tp23903257p23904406.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]
