You are my guiding light Emmanuel - I look forward to absorbing any and all nuggets of wisdom you post on your blog. I am so glad that finally someone with enough time on their hands has come to speak the truth about the evil demon enclosure that is Tapestry with its patron lord of darkness Howard.
Yours eternally, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Christman" <gchrist...@cardaddy.com> To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:46:55 AM Subject: Re: The Rise and Fall of Tapestry I'd just like to say I currently use Tapestry in some very large projects without issue. I'm not sure why your wasting your time trolling this mailing list. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Emmanuel Sowah <eso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Tapestry did not make it to a recent Web frameworks report released by > Zeroturnaround found here: > > http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/the-2014-decision-makers-guide-to-java-web-frameworks/ > > . > > This to me, and many others, is the clearest evidence yet that Tapestry has > failed and that Tapestry is no more relevant. Tapestry, once a rising star > with huge following, is reduced to rags with a very small cult following. > Users of Tapestry now are mostly newbies to Java or just finished school > and playing about with some home hobby projects. Or people, like Thiago H > de Paula Figueiredo, who write applications not used by more than 3 people. > > Now, to hammer the last nails on Tapestry's coffin, I've decide to write a > blog with the title: *The Rise and Fall of Tapestry*. The paragraphs I > would discuss include: > > 1. The begin > 2. How Tapestry betrayed it's users by breaking existing code base at any > major release. > 3. The arrogance of Howard Lewis *Ship* > 4. When the 'H' in Howard became 'C' to form Coward. > 5. When the Ship sank. > 4. How Tapestry became a one-man project > 5. Migration path to other web frameworks > 6. How Tapestry would be remembered. > 7. Why Howard finally embraced Wicket and started using it in his clients' > projects. > 8. When Tapestry became Wicketstry or Tapwickstry. > ... > > I want to have 10 points to write about in my blog. Please feel free to > suggest some other points for me. > > I have to mention that I will strictly moderate comments on my blog in > order to filter out venomous comments from Tapestry cult trolls like the > ones I've seen here the last few days. > > Please contribute. > > Cheers > -- George Christman www.CarDaddy.com P.O. Box 735 Johnstown, New York
