Hi Dan, Congrats! I like the @Once idea, that'll be really cool.
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on the HtmlUnit integration? How has that gone? Take care, Daniel On 7/26/07, Dan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey guys. Good to be joining the team. Here's some background on how I've been using Tapestry at my company (Interactive Factory): When I first came to our company just over 2 years ago we were using what was essentially a home-grown Struts designed such that it was Windows-only (despite it's being Java). After evaluating a number of web frameworks (and having worked with JSF at Sun) I promptly discarded our current code base and started afresh with T4 (and a number of other frameworks such as Hibernate and Spring). The result was, as expected, awesome. What I created for one project was then used on another, pulled out into a central library of components, and is now the basis for essentially all our projects, both CMS and custom publishing, ranging from the fairly simple to to incredibly complex. The most unique usage of Tapestry I've had is an internal CMS rapid-prototyping tool called ProtoCMS. It uses a simple XML CMS definition and an object model stored as on ASO to render entire interfaces of pages and components on the fly. This project is proof of Tapestry's capabilities and that component-based development works. In as little as 30 minutes you can create a functional CMS prototype for use in sales presentations or project specification. Prototypes are also easily editable through a javascript-based, ajax-enabled XML editor and can be skinned custom to each client. Since it is a prototyping tool, it allows creating new, re-usable components and functionality via a templating language. I'm now looking forward to the next major release of our internal libraries based on T5 which is driving all of the tickets and patches I've submitted as well as my becoming a committer. I am aiming pretty high with the features in this release so it's really exercising what T5 can do. Some notable things I'm looking forward to or have been working on: - Enhancement of tapestry-hibernate to be more configurable and more usable in both small and complex systems - Inspired by T5 I've been intentionally pushing the limits of what you can do with PageTester including: integration with HtmlUnit, running Jetty in-process so your tests and application run in the same JVM, and automatic start-up of HSLQDB including creation of tables for Hibernate entities. - Other possibly niceties such as one-off form validation and the @Once annotation for caching method results optionally dependent on a binding. I'm looking forward to working with all of you and I can't wait to see just how good T5 is going to be. On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 13:37 +0900, Nick Westgate wrote: > Yeah, congrats Dan. > > Dan has logged a lot of JIRA issues, so hopefully we can look > forward to some stuff that Howard doesn't have time for. ;-) > > Cheers, > Nick. > > > Daniel Jue wrote: > > Congrats Dan, I can't wait to see some impressive stuff! =) > > > > Can you tell some features we can look forward to? > > > > > >> Dan ... get started on that CLA: Here's some information you'll need: > >> > >> http://apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter > >> > >> Congrats! > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dan Adams Senior Software Engineer Interactive Factory 617.235.5857 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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