I recently started with a new company that appears to have chosen tapestry as
their framework.
I've previously been swimming webwork over the last couple of years. I have to
admit I have somewhat bias.
I am digging around for a few good sample apps that use reasonably decent
practices with Tapestry 4. I took a look at "Better Petshop" (uses tapestry 3).
Is there anything "Better"?
At first glance I was a little concerned with how verbose things were.
For instance, the "actions" duplicate all the getters/setters that were in the
main pojo they are exposing.
e.g. instead of exposing get/set Customer, it
had to copy all the properties to its action properties
i.e.
setGivenName(customer.getFirstname());
setFamilyName(customer.getLastname());
setAddress1(customer.getAddr1());
setAddress2(customer.getAddr2());
setCity(customer.getCity());
setStateOrProvince(customer.getState());
setCountry(customer.getCountry());
setPostalCode(customer.getZip());
setTelephoneNumber(customer.getPhone());
Is this typical with Tapestry apps?
Can't we just expose the main pojo without all this extra code?
The other thing I was concerned about is that much of the application's
behavior is achieve via inheritance(e.g. the archaic struts way).
OrderBillingPage-->ProtectedPage-->PetshopBasePage
In webwork, I'd probably achieve the same behavior by adding a some type of
securityInterceptor to that actions config(the are ways to default this to
whole packages of actions).
<action name="orderBilling" class="com.something.OrderBillingAction">
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
<interceptor-ref name="security"/> <!--- checks for user login and
redirects to global result "LOGON" if needed -->
<result name="success">billing.jsp</result>
</action>
Does tapestry have equivalent interceptors that can be defaulted for sections
of the application without having to resort to inheritance?
Thanks,
Matt
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