Hi all, For the past few months I've been enthusiastically evangelizing about Tapestry 5 and how great it is. We were supposed to use it in an upcoming project however, today there was a serious objection from some of our team members about the adoption of Tapestry in our company. These guys have googled extensively about Tapestry and weren't impressed about what they saw. They presented evidence that Tapestry has a bad track record on backwards compatibility. They also mentioned that the fact that Tapestry is a one man project it is too risky to adopt in our company. Also, they claim Howard has said there wouldn't be any major release of Tapestry in the future. This could lead to stagnation of innovation in Tapestry. They also presented evidence from Howard's blog that he has divided attention. He's doing Cappuccino, Clojure, Grails, etc. and seems to not have focus.
For all these and many other reasons I can't go into, they have decided we drop the plan to use Tapestry. They have asked us to take a serious look at Wicket and JSF. I really don't want to develop with JSF. I'm dissapointed. Any tips from anyone that I could use to convince our team to still go for Tapestry? Thanks, Gerald