Clean and readable .... Having worked with Spring MVC, JSP, Struts and finally found Tapestry I can just tell that a web project gets much much more "Clean and Readable" when choosing T5.
The elegant page and component folder structure leads to an easy-to-locate whatever you are searching for. It's always hard to win these arguments since people are often suspicious to new unproven (in their minds) technology. If the POC was not enough to convince you manager it was probably not a god POC or probably not a god manager. If you want to be close to the web (html, css, js) I can't think of any better more robust framework then T5. Struts was a mess when I tried it seven years ago but perhaps it has matured since then (actually T4 was a little bit messy then as well ...) I looked at http://struts.apache.org/primer.html and saw that they are referring to .jsp as key technology. If there where a minus one button somewhere I would press that one ... Gunnar Eketrapp 2012/1/26 Thim Anneesens <t.anneess...@ictjob.be> > Hello Tapestry users, > > The company where I work is going to choose a web framework to implement > there site (the company core business revolves around that site). We did a > POC with Spirng MVC, JSF, Struts and Tapestry. > We have shortlisted to Struts and Tapestry and I have the feeling that > Struts will win. > > The manager decision seams to revolve around the argument that if we can > do in Struts what we can do with Tapestry while keeping a code that is > relatively clean and readable, we should use Struts. > > *Does anyone have a killer use case that would be difficult to implement > in Struts and easy in Tapestry.* > > I already demonstrated the following about tapestry: > > * Better components in Tapestry than in Struts > * Better persistence tools (FLASH, CLIENT, SESSION ,SESSION STATE, ...) > * Cleaner templates > * Less code review because of the framework sensible conventions > * Better code navigability (when using an IDE) > * Better refactoring (most of the code is in Java) > * Coherence and homogeneity (One framework for all your needs / Struts > needs JSP, Freemarker, Spring services and Tiles to even compete ) > * Strong Ajax support out of the box > * Powerful configuration with symbols > * Beautiful architecture (easy to remember because very sensible) > * Easy to extend or override most of the features > * Live class reloading > * Made with most of the common web use cases in mind (javascript, css, > ajax, session, query parameters, cookies, integration with backend, > ...). > * Everything at your fingertips with Injection and IoC > > These are more than sufficient to convince me that productivity and > maintainability will be far better with Tapestry than with Struts. But > unfortunately, I fail to demonstrate to the manager :(. > > Sorry for my poor English and thanks in advance, > > Thim Anneessens. > -- [Hem: 08-715 59 57, Mobil: 070-991 86 42] Allévägen 2A, 132 42 Saltsjö-Boo
