If you're looking for a code-intensive framework, you might try wicket
(http://wicket.sourceforge.net) or click (http://click.sourceforge.net).
I haven't used either, personally, but have heard good things about
both.
Robert
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:13 -0600, Matt Welch wrote:
> I'm just getting into Tapestry and while I like many of the concepts,
> I'm finding it to be a little complex. Here's an example. It's my
> understanding that specifying components for you pages via annotation
> is new to Tapestry 4.0. I'm a fan of annotations however, in this case
> they seem a little clumsy. Here's an example from my adaptation of the
> tutorial I'm following (Kent Tong's Enjoying Web Development with
> Tapestry):
>
>
> @Component(
> id="productsLoop",
> type="For",
> bindings={
> "source=products",
> "value=currentProduct",
> "element=literal:tr"
> }
> )
> public abstract IComponent getProductsFor();
>
>
> That's how I declared a For component for the eStore tutorial. I guess
> that's really not so bad and my IDE keep the indentation clean so that
> it's not too hard to follow, but to be honest, what I was kind of
> expecting was something a little more code intensive rather than XML
> or annotation intensive. For instance, if the BasePage or AbstractPage
> had a method like addPageComponent() then in some kind of
> intialization method or perhaps the contstructor I might do something
> like:
>
>
> {
> For productsLoop = new For();
> products.setId("productsLoop");
> productsLoop.setSource(getProducts());
> productsLoop.setValue(getCurrentProduct());
> productsLoop.setElement("tr");
> addPageComponent(productsLoop);
> }
>
>
> I'm guessing that this alternate way of doing things doesn't exist
> since I haven't seen any tutorials or examples that show anything like
> that. Has anyone ever tried to do something like that or would there
> be drastic changes to core framework needed?
>
> Again, I'm pretty new to Tapestry so it may be that I'll get used to
> such heavy annotations/XML in time, so take this for what it is: a
> newb's first impressions.
>
> Matt Welch
>
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