Tapestry Making Web Development a Breeze?

An anonymous reader writes "IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article on how to simplify your Web-based development with Tapestry, an open-source, Java-based framework that makes developing a breeze. The article shows you around Tapestry, from installation to file structure. See for yourself how Tapestry facilitates servlet-based Web application development using HTML and template tags."

Comments

Re:Pathetic.

[tcopeland]

> Do the "editors" even try to pretend that these aren't blatent ads any more?

Hm. Tapestry is an open source project; from the FAQ:

Tapestry is open source and free. It is licensed under the Apache Software License, which allows it to be used even inside proprietary software

So I'm not sure that this really qualifies as an ad. More of a "free, informative article", especially since the author (Brett McLaughlin) is quite a Java guru.

Looks like Tapestry uses annotations a lot; I've found them to be pretty handy things as well...

DeveloperWorks is supporting open source community

[TapestryDude]

As the original author of Tapestry (but not the article on DeveloperWorks, which caught me by surprise) I can say that IBM doesn't have any secret agenda on this. In fact, given that IBM is selling a commercial product that competes head-to-head with Tapestry (their JavaServer Faces, built on top of their WebSphere proprietary Eclipse IDE) it is enlightened of them to cover Tapestry.

Of course, what's going on there is two fold. First, IBM is big enough that different areas of the organization will have different and occasionally competing goals. Primarily, all on-line magazines are constantly hunting for new material to keep the eyeballs looking (and the click rates clicking). IBM doesn't solicit authors to write on particular subjects, they accept existing authors efforts, with the authors pursuing their own interests. Here, Brett happened to be into Tapestry and did a great job providing additional documentation in the form of this article.

I make my living off of Tapestry, so I'm happy to see this kind of coverage, but the framework itself is open source and free, with a very, very liberal license (ASL 2.0). I make money by providing Tapestry support and training. There's your ad.

In even newer news, Tapestry 4.0 final release is now available.

Re:Easy web development with Java?

[Decaff]

        * 117 lines of very liberally spaced Python code, or
        * 138 lines of insecure PHP code, or
        * 3004 lines of Java code in 45 files, 29 lines of SQL, and 246 lines of XML configuration in five files.

Which is complete nonsense, as with Java you can use JSP tag libraries, which will are secure (compiled, so no code injection at run-time) and can be used in exactly the same way as PHP, so will require about the same size of code.

Re:Easy web development with Java?

[AlXtreme]

Lets just, for the sake of clarity and shameless Python-fanboyism, ignore the fact that the PHP code was properly commented (about a third of the 'code') and the Python code had a whopping 1 (one) line of commenting. Not to mention the PHP code had extra newlines adding to the readability of the code, and about half the code was a (very neatly indentend) array for some external library. Wake me up when you have a proper comparison.

Don't get me wrong: I love Python. But it doesn't need flawed statistics. Heck, I'd think a maintenance programmer would love the PHP code easily over that Python mess. (K)LOC don't count people, your use of commenting and clear code does!