This looks interesting at first glance (a little soon to give a real opinion about it).
A couple of questions that pop to mind right off the bat: Do I have to be using JDK 5.0? Do I have to be using Hibernate? I'm sure I'll come up with more questions if I get the time to really dive into this, but these are a couple of showstoppers for me. On 3/23/06, Steve Motola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are proud to announce the Alpha release of the Cognition Framework, an > open > source web application framework that uses the Tapestry / Hibernate / > Spring > application stack. > > http://www.thelabllc.com > > Accompanying it is an Eclipse Plug-in called the Cognition Modeler, a GUI > tool > for working with Tapestry and the Cognition Framework. > > http://dev.thelabllc.com/cognition/viewlets/cognition_intro.htm > > We've been listening closely to the mailing list and have come across many > of > the same problems in our own development. Here are some of the goals we > achieve with the Cognition Framework: > > 1. Lower the bar of entry for Tapestry. > 2. The ability to start quickly with Hibernate and Spring, and not be > bogged > down with configuration. > 3. Have some common practices and standards in terms of application > design and > approach. > 4. Provide GUI tools for Tapestry 4. We look forward to contributing to > Spindle and integrating this within the Beta. > 5. Provide a framework that is fully extensible. > 6. Rapid Application Development for Tapestry and the rest of the OS > application stack. > > So give it a download, try it out, give feedback and get involved. We > apologize > in advance about the lack of documentation, we are working aggressively on > this, > as we've been focusing on getting out the Alpha. > > http://www.thelabllc.com/Products.page > > Right now we are at EclipseCon. Lots of big vendors have fancy, > complicated, > expensive tools for JSF. > > The Tapestry community needs more tools - ones that are simple, > affordable, easy > to use and allow us to solve problems quickly. We think Cognition > Framework is > on the right path and look forward to having it grow and serve the needs > of the > Tapestry community and beyond. > > > Derick Fernando, Lead Architect > Steve Motola, President > > The Lab, LLC > http://www.thelabllc.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Steven Bell
