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Wednesday January 28, 2004

Tapestry vs. Struts

I've been watching the Tapestry mailing lists in hopes of picking up some tips before I start learning it. In reality, I'm waiting for Tapestry in Action, which will hopefully make it easier to learn. Today, there was a very interesting thread comparing Tapestry to Struts. It looks to me that Tapestry is easier to develop with once you get the hang of it, but apparently, it has a steep learning curve.

The Tapestry Mailing list is interesting - it seems to have a different level of users. Maybe it's just me, but they seem to be a more enlightened crowd. You could almost say the same for the WebWork mailing lists. If I compare these two lists to the questions on the Struts mailing lists - it seems like there's a bunch of idiots over there (on Struts). Don't these people know how to use Google?! To be fair to Struts, I have a theory.

If WebWork or Tapestry ever becomes as popular as Struts, they'll get their fare share of idiots too.

It's just the nature of mailing lists - it's so much easier to ask your question than to look for the answer. Which reminds me...

Don't ask dumb questions...

Posted in Java at Jan 28 2004, 09:51:15 PM MST 2 Comments
Comments:

Once the Tapestry in Action comes it you won't be disappointed! I am lucky enough to have an early copy to review. You wonder when I have time to play with frameworks, when does Howard have time to lead a framework, a consulting job and write a easy to follow book! Speaking of, when is an article coming out on Appfuse?

Posted by Kris Thompson on January 29, 2004 at 10:19 AM MST #

<em>> when is an article coming out on AppFuse?</em>

If I wrote an article, that might lead to more users - leading to more support e-mails for me. Sounds like a lot of work. ;-)

Of course, the flip-side is that the more visibility it gets, the more the code will improve. I do plan to do a couple of short presentations on it in the near future.

  • April 3rd in NYC, where I'm presenting on Struts Menu and DisplayTag and I'll probably touch on AppFuse for a few minutes, since it includes both. Howard (from Tapestry) and Rod (from Spring) are scheduled to be there too! I hope to learn a lot that weekend.
  • Denver JUG in June - the Basic Concepts group is on AppFuse.

You can also be assured that if I ever write another book - AppFuse will be my sample app!

Posted by Matt Raible on January 29, 2004 at 12:34 PM MST #

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