This is consistent with what I'm seeing-- that Struts is the major competitor to Tapestry. Perhaps a targeted white paper describing the benefits of Tapestry over Struts?
Joe >From: Franck Rasolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tapestry Developer ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Tapestry-developer] Random thought: Why so few subscribers? >Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:39:13 +0100 (BST) > >Hi Howard, > >Perhaps, it's because many people have their hands tied up and can't >use it at work yet because their employer or customers have already >invested in an in-house or another Open Source MVC framework such as >Struts. I belong to that category myself, even though I really do see >the value of Tapestry when it comes to building truely componentised >web applications. > >Over the past two weeks in London, I was amazed at the number of contracts >advertised on UK job sites that required MVC/Struts skills. Several months >ago, I can tell you that it wasn't the case. I fear that many companies are >standardising on Struts and therefore won't start migrating or developing >applications to "yet another web framework". Standardisation has made >J2EE what it is today, a widely adopted umbrella of standards. With Java >Server Faces coming up next, I honestly don't know where that would leave >Tapestry. Sigh. > >IMHO, Tapestry needs a serious advocacy campaign. With a good integration >with popular IDE's (Geoff, great work by the way!), more articles, >how-to's, >tutorials, and books published on popular web sites such as JavaWorld, >TheServerSide, JDJ and others, there could be a way to reverse that trend. > >Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you for the >incredible amount of time and effort you have put into building this great >framework! > >Regards > >Franck Rasolo >Independent Consultant >London, UK > > --- "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Had a discussion last night about Tapestry's popularity and the ratio of > > downloads (over 6000 last month) against subscribers to this list. It's >a > > bit confusing ... there's only about 140 on the mailing list. How many > > people are downloading Tapestry and putting it aside? > > > > Things just don't add up. If 5000 people downloaded Tapestry 2.0 and > > weren't interested, then did a different 6000 people download 2.1? Or >did > > the same folks download 2.0 and 2.1, but aren't interested enough to > > subscribe to this mailing list? > > > > I joked it was because the Tapestry documentation is just so good, but > > what's really going on? > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > Howard > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts >http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_______________________________________________ >Tapestry-developer mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer Joseph Panico [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
