Hey, I've been wading through the reorg list and noticed that the main developer for Tapestry (http://tapestry.sf.net), Howard Ship, sent in a proposal for Tapestry to join Apache. It seemed to get a good reception and from what I can decipher, he was directed to start up a project in the brand-spanking-new incubator to see how things go. (others please correct me if I'm wrong).
In the proposal he acknowledges that Tapestry overlaps Turbine but is a thinner, more presentation-only framework that lets users do something like: <input jwcid="foo" /> in HTML and then somehow talk to "foo" from action-type Java code. It also acknowledges that it's popular to use Tapestry as presentation only and use Turbine services (he specifically mentions Torque) to do service/business-logic stuff. So, I dunno, what's the general reaction towards having yet another web framework in Jakarta? I was thinking instead of turning him away, what if we asked Tapestry to merge in with the t3/t4/avalon/summit effort in that they could have their own template/view layer that instead of being Velocity, would be their puesdo-HTML markup, and then talks to a Fulcrum-style service to do their component management logic, kind of like the Intake model of doing things? I think the integration would be awful nice for both projects. Plus it would provide some good exposure/users/developers for the summit effort. - Stephe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
