[Building Sakai] Tapestry 5 Integration with Sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Earle,

Sounds interesting, do you have any idea how much work is involved on the Sakai side to make it work?

cheers,
Steve

On 26/06/2011, at 2:17 AM, Earle Nietzel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The last 6 months I have been using Tapestry 5 and have come to enjoy using it very much. 
> 
> It is a very powerful but yet simple Java web framework that is often compared to Wicket a lot since it shares many of the same ideas. 
> 
> I did look at Wicket prior to Tapestry and was not satisfied by the amount of code that goes into a Wicket App.
> 
> Tapestry is like a breath of fresh air, it's power comes from its own DSL by use of annotations. It has its own IoC container allowing the ability to create pages with minimal amounts of code, often resulting in 1 page of code because of its excellent use of annotations. To give you an example even validation is added using an annotation, just a simple one liner for example:
> 
> @Validate("required,regexp")
> public String zip;
> 
> And you can i18n the error message and the regular expression to a properties file:
> zip-regexp=^\\d{5}(-\\d{4})?$
> zip-regexp-message=Zip Codes are five or nine digits.  Example: 12589 or 12589-0000.
> 
> Those that have used features from lombok will like to know these are built into Tapestry 5.
> 
> Of course there is so much more so take a look at their web site http://tapestry.apache.org/ where they have a 10 minute video http://blog.markwshead.com/900/tapestry-5-10-minute-demo/
> 
> The video is a great way to see what Tapestry can offer over a coffee break.
> 
> 
> I have looked at integrating Tapestry 5 with Sakai.
> 
> What I have found is that Tapestry (as well as newer versions of Wicket) is invoked as a web filter i.e. TapestryFilter, currenlty Sakai does not support using filters as tools in fact it must be a servlet. This appears to be due to the tool registration as it registers a tool id with a servlet and then uses RequestDispatcher to dispatch requests to the appropriate tool.
> 
> I have opened the following JIRA KNL-754 to track this feature.
> 
> I would also like to know if there is interest in this?
> 
> Earle
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