RE: Things a newbie would like to see covered in your upcoming book

["Howard M. Lewis Ship" <hl...@comcast.net>]

How's it feel to want? (Sorry, that's my dad's idea of a joke).

Actually, the most important stuff is already in there.  

> * A detailed explanation of the rewind cycle

YES

> * Why you need a two types of links (Direct Link and Action Link).

I actually don't mention ActionLink in the book because I don't feel its all that useful.

> * Why you need a listener for the ListEdit control and what 
> it does for you.

YES

> * An example of a CRUD screen.

YES -- in terms of the Vlib.

> * A list of best practices.

Throughout the book.

> * A comparison of a JSP app and a tapestry app.

Nope. There are other books for doing comparisons, that's a distraction. There's limited discussions
about servlets and such.

> * Where things should typically be initialized.

YES

> * Differences between Foreach and ListEdit and why two 
> different types of 
> iterator components are required.

YES

> * Validation and how it works at a detailed level.

YES

> * Lots of detail on how scripting works with plenty of examples.

YES

> * Why ActionLink wasn't work inside a ListEdit.

NOPE

> 
> I could probably go on forever but that's a good cross 
> section of the sorts 
> of things I've wanted to know since I've started working with 
> Tapestry.  It's been a tough job learning tapestry but it's great to 
> program against.  Can't wait until your book is released.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Glen Stampoultzis
> glens@apache.org
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
> 


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RE: Things a newbie would like to see covered in your upcoming book

[Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>]

At 11:24 AM 4/11/2003, you wrote:

> > * Why you need a two types of links (Direct Link and Action Link).
>
>I actually don't mention ActionLink in the book because I don't feel its 
>all that useful.

Should it's use be considered deprecated then?  It certainly wasn't clear 
to me which one I should be using.

> > * A comparison of a JSP app and a tapestry app.
>
>Nope. There are other books for doing comparisons, that's a distraction. 
>There's limited discussions
>about servlets and such.

Maybe.  I was thinking it would be useful because most people would be 
coming from the that world and it's quiet different in tapestry land.



Regards,

Glen