• JRebel "light"
• Separate ClassLoader
• Components, pages - classes and templates
• Service reloading

Tapestry IoC

• IoC/DI container
• Extensibility of Tapestry
• Tapestry distributed configuration
• Eclipse-like plugins

Tapestry Module

Static Structure,
Dynamic Behavior

• Pages are singletons
• Members are held in a ThreadLocal map
• Masks variables while debugging

Speed Best Practices

• GZIP compression
• Cacheable URLs & Far-Future expires headers
• Eliminates unnecessary whitespace
• JavaScript is combined, compressed (YUICompressor) and GZIPed
• CSS is compressed (YUICompressor) and GZIPed

Security

• No direct parameter handling
• Encoding of all text output
• JavaScript/AJAX handled in central components

Conclusion

• Scalable, extensible and productive.
• Excellent in big applications (reuse, standardization).
• Good documentation, responsive mailing list

Outlook Tapestry 5.4

• CoffeeScript, Less and/or SASS
• jQuery replaces Prototype + JS abstraction layer
• More focus on client-side and JS

Tapestry Sources

• Igor Drobiazko, Tapestry 5. Rapid Web Application Development in Java
• Igor Drobiazko, Tapestry 5: Die Entwicklung von Webanwendungen mit Leichtigkeit!
• Alexander Kolesnikov, Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications
• Tapestry Jumpstart
• Java Magic blog
• Igor Drobiazko's blog
• Tapestry Central blog
• Tapestry Home Page