Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry
Written by Clement Faria on November 21, 2009 under Web Development.
Product Description
If you’d like to create web-based applications easily, then this book is for you. More importantly, it shows you how to do that with joy and feel good about your own work! You don’t need to know servlet or JSP while your productivity will be much higher than using servlet or JSP directly. This is possible because we’re going to use a library called “Tapestry” that makes complicated stuff simple and elegant. How does it do that? First, it allows the web designer t… More >>
Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry
Vadim Berezniker
November 21, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Of all the programming books I have read, I think the author’s writing style stands out the most. The annotated diagrams really give you a feel for what’s happening. I hope he writes more books in the future.
After (or rather while) reading this book, I was able to start and complete a small project without much difficulty. I really did enjoy it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Vinicius C. Carvalho
November 21, 2009 at 5:47 pm
This book has everthing you’d like to know about Tapestry 4.0. I have the PDF version, and It’s awesome. I’ve read Howard’s Book and this one, and recommend both as the complement each other. Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry is a “hands on” book, giving examples for everthing, and providing integration with other technologies as Hibernate and Struts. It’s a must have for all Tapestry developers
Rating: 4 / 5
Jason Buberel
November 21, 2009 at 6:44 pm
This is definitely worth the download, as the focus of all Tapestry development work is now very much focused on release v4.0. This release does a very good job of introducing you to all of the most frequently used features in Tapestry 4.0.
Some areas in which this could be improved/enhanced:
1. Include information on how to convert the Tap v3.0 ‘Visit’ pattern into the more flexible hivemind-based session-persistece mechanism now used in Tap v4.0.
2. Provide a thorough example of how to implement a pull-down menu component in a form using the latest Tap v4 conventions. The form examples cover other form components like text fields and checkboxes, but there is no good example of a select list (pull-down menu) or multi-select list.
3. In general, for each of the major feature areas, it would be great to start with a brief summary along the lines of: ‘This is how it was done in Tap v3, and this is how it has been changed for v4′.
Don’t take these criticisms to mean that I consider this e-Book not worth the purchase price. I think it is a very good resource at a reasonable price.
Rating: 4 / 5
Petri Wessman
November 21, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I’m writing a largish application using Tapestry 4 at the moment, and this book has been invaluable in helping me figure out the recommended ways of doing things with the new version. I have experience with Tapestry 3, but at the time of this writing there is very little documentation and even fewer examples of how to do things “in the new way”.
If you’re doing anything non-trivial with Tapestry 4, you owe it to yourself to get this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
Cory Watson
November 21, 2009 at 7:29 pm
If you intend to do development with Tapestry, this book will definitely grease the wheels, so to speak. A variety of ‘real world’ examples provide plenty of ammunition in the battle to conquer Tapestry. I highly recommend you aim to use Tapestry.
Rating: 4 / 5