Re: IBM/MyFaces JSF vs. Tapestry

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, Aaron, I'm glad you're the guy posing this question!  You know that I'm
no friend of frameworks because in my mind they tend to clutter the process
rather than simplify it, and they also tend to lock you into the frameworks
designer's way of thinking.  I've counseled in the past that people who are
determined to use a framework need to look at other options.  Tapestry is
one of those other options, and a very good one in my book.

For example, the fact that Tapestry uses SPAN tags to identify their
elements is a bit of genius on their part.  WYSIWYG editors tend to ignore
spans, which means you can put a real example of what you want inside the
tag.  I wish that JSP expressions had the same concept.

Anyway, please let me know how it goes.  It looks like there's a pretty
strong base of Tapestry users out there as well as a lot of documentation,
books and tutorials.

Joe


> From: albartell
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:54 PM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WEB400] IBM/MyFaces JSF vs. Tapestry
> 
> So, my question, has anybody else gone down the JSF route and switched to
> Tapestry like I am attempting to do?