What do you think about Tapestry 5.2?

Question

I want to create a new project and I'm studing diferent web frameworks In StackOverFlow there are diferent threads of tapestry but it talks about Tapestry 4 or old Tapestry 5.0.8

What about tapestry 5.2, what do you think about it ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I use Tapestry 5.1 on a daily basis and I would use it (or now 5.2) for any future Java project.

Pros:

• With Hibernate integration, CRUD apps and any typical form handling is extremely simple.
• Dynamic class re-loading means you rarely have to restart your server during development. This has been supposedly improved even more in 5.2.
• No abstract classes to inherit and for typical usage, no interfaces to implement.
• TML (Tapestry Markup Language) is nice; generates clean html, forces separation of view and behavior.

Cons:

• Documentation for extending the framework is lacking.
• The internals are difficult to understand; sometimes you just do what the doc says and it works, but you don't really understand why.

Most of the negative things you hear will be leftover from Tapestry 3 and 4 which were not nearly as clean as T5. T5 also broke compatibility which made a lot of people mad. But if you're evaluating a framework purely on the merits of the current version, I highly recommend it.