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Recently I started working on a new project using Tapestry 5.1 in GlassFish 3. That particular combination requires replacing GF's StAX lib with a different imp

by arete 16y ago

Recently I started working on a new project using Tapestry 5.1 in GlassFish 3. That particular combination requires replacing GF's StAX lib with a different implementation that Tapestry depends on. Then there's the usual issue of reconciling the 2-3 different logging frameworks that various components depend on, writing the (albeit minimal XML descriptors for the app, web app, EJB, configuring resources in the app server admin console, etc. It's unlikely you can do all that in minutes, so you're probably talking about copying an existing app template. Adding a db column requires modifying the entity itself, DTOs, form beans, and of course the relevant JSP/templates. With Rails conventions you'd only modify the pages.

jbail 16y ago
Do you like Tapestry?
- drivebyacct2 16y ago
  For what it's worth I had a nightmare of a time with it. Especially Tapestry 5.0, 5.1. The documentation is atrocious and out of date. Also, it could have been a novice mistake that resulted from days of all nighters in a row, but I had a critical bug that prevented me from delivering that, as a TA later discovered, was resulting from my form validation occurring once for each form element on the page rather than executing once for the entire form.
  - ollysb 16y ago
    I've just moved over to rails. After 6 years of using poor APIs tapestry 5 was what finally tipped me over the edge. On the project we used it for we would actually allow 2 days to get a tapestry page working correctly. Howard (creator of tapestry) seems to believe that html and http were a mistake and that he's created the event based solution to hide it away. The result, helped along by the lack of docs, is that even with what would have been the simplest of tasks with html and http become an impossible hunt through his dodgy codebase. Far and away the most painful framework I've ever had the misfortune to use. Worst part was that is was me that was seduced by the seeming simplicity of it and chose it in the first place ;)

by arete 16y ago

jbail 16y ago

Do you like Tapestry?

drivebyacct2 16y ago
For what it's worth I had a nightmare of a time with it. Especially Tapestry 5.0, 5.1. The documentation is atrocious and out of date. Also, it could have been a novice mistake that resulted from days of all nighters in a row, but I had a critical bug that prevented me from delivering that, as a TA later discovered, was resulting from my form validation occurring once for each form element on the page rather than executing once for the entire form.
- ollysb 16y ago
  I've just moved over to rails. After 6 years of using poor APIs tapestry 5 was what finally tipped me over the edge. On the project we used it for we would actually allow 2 days to get a tapestry page working correctly. Howard (creator of tapestry) seems to believe that html and http were a mistake and that he's created the event based solution to hide it away. The result, helped along by the lack of docs, is that even with what would have been the simplest of tasks with html and http become an impossible hunt through his dodgy codebase. Far and away the most painful framework I've ever had the misfortune to use. Worst part was that is was me that was seduced by the seeming simplicity of it and chose it in the first place ;)