Well it isn't WYSIWYG but check out Tapestry Palette for Eclipse: http://tapestrypalette.sf.net
It sits on top of Spindle and provides drag and drop of components onto templates. There's a Flash movie on the site demonstrating the features. Mike On Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 03:25PM, Danie Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am in agreement wholeheartedly with what you stated. As tapestry >matures we need to find ways to keep people out of the blood and guts of >Tapestry if they don't need to. This is what commercial tool vendors do >with high level frameworks such as .NET or even the case of SAP's >WebDynPro, to offer an alternative example. I think its vital that the >Tapestry community stay focused and committed to Tapestry in order to >avoid the scenario that you just described. > It is harder for an open source project such as tapestry to create all >of the nice GUI RAD tools that other environments have. WebObjects had >Builder, .NET has Visual Studio and the WebDynPro environment has a set >of wizards tools that allow you to rapidly assemble an application and >do a very good job of keeping you out of alot of the blood and guts of >the application. As Tapestry matures we should see the same thing and >not the reverse. We cannot expect the core tapestry team and project to >do everything, but if we had good tools that help ease the complexity of >building a simple application then we have the best of both worlds, and >it would make Tapestry a much more compelling framework. I have heard >good feedback on Suns Visual Studio for JSF, what is the most promising >tool for Tapestry support, the myeclipse integration? What do folks >feel is the ideal concept for a Tapestry 4.0 and beyond development >tool? Spindle is great, but merely scratches the surface of what is >possible.... > > > >Patrick Casey wrote: > >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Danie Honig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:56 PM >>>To: Tapestry users >>>Subject: Re: Tapestry starting to look too steep >>> >>>Too early to criticize 4.0 and contrast it with .NET. Any new >>>platform/paradigm requires a commitment to learn it. If your interested >>>in solutions that require very little time to learn and are immediately >>>productive but limit your ability to scale across a wide range of uses >>>and offer substandard performance, I highly reccomend the microsoft >>>approach...Historically this is what they are good at. >>> >>> >>> >> >> That's what I was trying to get at earlier I guess. There are some >>tools which make the easy stuff easier and are ideal for relatively simple >>projects. From a reality check standpoint though, I think *most* projects >>are simple. For everyone writing a 10,000 concurrent user e-business app >>running atop a multiplexed server farm, there are probably 1,000 guys out >>there writing simple little CRUD apps to people can update the corporate >>phone list over the web. >> >> So it's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. If tapestry >>becomes more and more of a "high end" tool, I think it's going to have a >>narrower and narrower user pool. At some point it may cross the threshold >>where my projects usually sit and then I'll be in the unfortunate position >>of thinking "now why would I use that atomic bomb to kill a mouse?". >> >> --- Pat >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
