A Public Scratchpad

Well, it’s official: I can now add features to Tapestry without a middleman! If Howard hadn’t beat me to it, I’d probably start out by adding a BeanForm component to Tapestry 5. As things stand, I’ll probably start small — fix some bugs, add some small features, etc.

This also increases the pressure to get HtmlUnit working with the Prototype (Tapestry 5) and Dojo (Tapestry 4) JavaScript libraries. There’s no excuse for my two pet projects to remain immiscible. Well… except that it’s hard to simulate all of the extravagant browser features that these newfangled JavaScript libraries require

I enjoy writing (to a degree), so one of my self-imposed tasks may also be to polish the documentation for Tapestry 5. One of the more prominent criticisms of Tapestry 4 has been that the learning curve is steep and the documentation is sub par. It’d be nice to turn that around and move Tapestry 5 to the opposite side of the spectrum: a gentle learning curve facilitated by excellent documentation. On vera comment ça va aller…