Co-author of Lucene in Action
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Are Tapestry and JSF similar ?
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Co-author of Lucene in Action
Originally posted by Erik Hatcher:
Gregg - I'm curious... have you used Tapestry? Did you try the examples from his book? I'm just curious if you yourself put Tapestry in Action during your review of the book. If you did not, then I take your review much less seriously because it requires using something to understand it, and I think you would then find Howard's book more enlightening.
Kishore
SCJP, blog
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
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Kishore
SCJP, blog
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
Here is the link to the serverside review of the book. Looks like the content deserves better rating than given by the ranch.
Ranch reviews are usually on the liberal side(like 8*s for average books). If that is the case this book also deserves reasonable rating. I would think this book needs another review from expert reviewer like Tom.
Kishore
SCJP, blog
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
If the architect is stiff and sticks with his opinions, the upper management will sure get pissed off bigtime. Just a observation.
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Ah. But you're assuming that the JavaRanch upper management wants Gregg to change his review. We don't. We want our reviewers to post their honest opinions. We stand behind Gregg 100%.
Management doesn't want an architect to take a vote among the coders and do what they want. Management wants an architect to stick to his guns.
Kishore
SCJP, blog
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Kishore
SCJP, blog
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
Gregg,
Personally this thread or my commenting is going out of hand. Please don't take this to the heart.
I was only trying to improve the process and trying to express my opinions. I sure don't want to be considered as a trouble maker. From next time, I will try to be more polite and upto the point with respect to my opinions and concerns(than pointing the opinion on a personal level).
Let us all be friends and work towards improving the Javaranch(it is up there in quality anyway) to be more powerful.
[ May 27, 2004: Message edited by: Kishore Dandu ]
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
Our book review process is a valid topic for discussion, but if anyone has any questions or comments about it, the JavaRanch forum would be the place to do it. I would be happy to answer any questions on the subject.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Book Review Team:
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Review by : Thomas Paul
Rating : 7 horseshoes</pre>
Tapestry is a web development framework that is radically different than most other frameworks used for web development. The author of this book, Howard Lewis Ship, is the principal architect of Tapestry. It is often the case that an expert is not necessarily the best person to write about a topic as they often forget what it is like to be a novice. The book starts with this problem but fortunately after the first couple of chapters the book improves greatly.
Chapter one is an introduction to Tapestry. The explanation is far from clear so if you don't know what Tapestry is when you start this chapter, you will still not know what it is when you finish. Chapter two is our first exposure to a Tapestry application but the author chooses a sample (a hangman game) that is complicated and is not a typical web application.
Chapters three through five discuss HTML forms and form components, showing how to use and validate them in a Tapestry application. The next three chapters show how to build your own form components and the last two chapters show how to build a complete Tapestry application. Starting with chapter three the book takes a turn for the better. If you were lost at the beginning of the book, it will all make sense by the time you get to the end.
I can strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Tapestry whether they are a novice or an experienced Tapestry developer.
More info at Amazon.com
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Kishore
SCJP, blog
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Originally posted by Junilu Lacar:
I'm having the same experience as Tom with the first 3 chapters. The choice of the hangman game as the first example was a poor one, IMHO. Still, I'm encouraged by Tom's assurance that it will get better in the later chapters. I've been working with Struts long enough to want to start looking for a better alternative.
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Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
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