opencomponentry

A new version of Tapestry has been released for general consumption. It is highly reccomended that anyone using the 4.1.x series of Tapestry try out the upgrade as it contains many bug fixes and minor improvements that you’ll likely benefit from. (more found in the release notes)
Download it here.
Tacos Updates
Although I’ve been very [...]

The MysteryCoder has written up a little article discussing one often missed feature in Rails - Tapestry style components.
In it he discusses some of the features he misses in WebObjects/Tapestry style components such as re-usable view logic, component composition and binding parameters.
I know another rails developer (who I’ll leave anonymous to save him from [...]

There, I said it. I don’t know about you, but every time I read another article where someone touts their java web framework for its likeness to programming in Swing I want to vomit all over my monitor - and then the person doing the touting.
Swing? …Really?
Before I make all [...]

I am both happy and proud to announce the release of Tapestry 4.1.2 and OGNL 2.7. The official change list can be found both here (Tapestry) and here (OGNL).
There has been such an immense amount of work put in to both of these releases that it doesn’t do them justice to just link to [...]

For shits and giggles I ran a few informal tests using the old TimeTracker demo app from the version 4.1.1 release (couldn’t compare using the latest as it uses some of the new features that 4.1.1 just doesn’t have, such as the rounded corners and drop shadow rendering services).
The results were fairly impressive, not [...]

Oh boy, can you believe that I thought up the title for this entry before even starting the work required to be able to write it? What kind of sick and twisted form of narcissism is that? That’s ok, java2d extracted a heavy toll for my sins.
I literally sat down with the previous article [...]