I wouldn't propose writing documentation on the Wiki, but it's a good place to coordinate. Several folks are interested in helping with documentation and tutorials, but the majority are waiting for me to do more coordination ... and I'm tapped out for the moment (day job, etc., etc.). I'm busy putting features in, and trying to keep the existing doc up-to date.
The existing Tutorial has long outlasted its usefulness (except for the last two applications, the Portal and the Workbench). I would prefer that docs be written against 2.2, since there's a change in the specification DTD. I've recently updated the existing Tutorial. 2.2 should stabilize fairly soon and I honestly don't have anything significant that has to go into the core framework for 2.3. I suspect that much of the interesting work going forward will be additional layerings on top of Tapestry, rather than changes to Tapestry itself, such as Geoff's UnitOfWork extensions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Clayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: Use of Tapestry, and contrinution > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > I've downloaded and had a play with T2.1. I like it. I wanted to drop you a > line to say that I would be happy to help develop the Tapestry tutorial, > based on the problems I have (and still have!) had learning the system. > > I think it's got real potential, futher work on making it easier to learn how > to do things would help I think. I would have posted something along these > lines onto the Wiki but a) my Wiki experience is close to zero and b) It's > getting late (tired). > > Absolutely no idea how I should proceed with this contribution, so perhaps you > can punt me in the right direction. > > I'm no expert with Tapestry, I've only spent about 9 days with it (for a total > of about 17 hours). So far, I've written my own version of the JSP 'guess a > number' app, and come into a number of problems with finding out exactly how > validators work. > > Overall, I would like to figure out how the following topics work, and then > provide you some documentation for them, of sufficient quality to be used in > the tutorial: > > * Validators > * Validating field types using Tapestry components > * Binding of validation to dynamic values of a bean (which would I guess be > references via a visit object) > * "One mans approach to skinning a web app" > * Using multiple submit buttons on a form > > I know many of these might seem basic to yourself, but having them in > tutorial/reference form would have helped me learn the system significantly > faster.... (let's hope I'm not blind, and that these are not actually in the > existing tutorial, else I will feel somewhat stupid). > > Quick Question: Should I be using 2.2, even though it's in Alpha? (my guess is > that in reality I should be.... but I thought I would ask) > > Regards, > - -- > Neil > > (BTW: If you see weird text surrounding the message and you don't know what it > is, don't worry, it's just my public PGP signature). > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9XYH7LXcfQF3yrNoRAmXpAKCWDaW8Csz65Oms995z5HLNd0Oy4gCfdkt7 > BJyDWRUzHORkmJK41faF0co= > =9TbR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
