Apache Tapestry

What do you like best?

its well structured, writing UI or the server side code is straight forward once we understand how to code using. tapestry.

Major advantage is it is open source.

What do you dislike?

its an old project by apache, not well maintained, no major releases and frequent bug fixes.

Its different from other java frameworks and hence more of a learning curve.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

ITs best to Use tapestry when you have a lot of data passing between UI and server code.

the form component in tapestry does a lot while a simple JSP cannot do. - It stores all the data needed during the form submission - Just like in spring.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Mainly for developing a java application. tapestry can be used in place of JSP and JSP as the framwork is straight forward and easy to re use the code component.