You win some, you lose some. The Java Report has accepted my article on Tapestry (though I need to put together some performance stats and UML diagrams).
However, JavaOne has turned down my proposal to present Tapestry.
Tapestry 0.2.9 is coming very soon. I really have to figure out when I can just call it "1.0.0".
Release version 0.2.8a of Tapestry just now. A little bit of savage refactoring, and I completed support for localization.
I seem to spend at least as much time documenting things as I do actually coding them.
What's in a name? I'm in the process of changing the name of the central object of a Tapestry application.
Instead of "application", it will now be "engine".
This fixes so much of the documentation! It moves the term "application" out of the real of implementation and back into the real of pure ideas.
Well, the JavaReport got my article on Tapestry and now I get to wait for a couple of weeks to see if they take it.
Just released Tapestry 0.2.7.. I'm definately getting to the point where I have to ask the question: How does it end? ... in other words, when is it finished, when does it start to really bloat?
Of course, bloat really started at least a month ago; some of the new components, ValidatingTextField, FieldLabel and Script, are far more than the "really basic" set of components I initially envisioned ... but I want Tapestry applications to really differentiate themselves and the text field components, at the least, are important for that.
Can I certify myself for more than an Observer? Let's find out.
Ok, so today I shipped my article on Tapestry to the Java Report. This is very hopeful ... it seems like the publication process for a second article is less formal than the first (I was published there in the June 2000 issue).
I got a lot of response from the first article, probably 100 e-mails, mostly like "where can I get the source code", but still very cheering. That's why I've put way more effort into Tapestry and into the Tapestry demos, in preperation for another onslaught. SourceForge will help a lot there, since it's pretty well organized.
Too bad I'm not certified yet, the current discussion about "critical mass" is very close to my heart.
I've been following several different paths to bootstrap Tapestry :
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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