What is Tapestry?
It is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. It involves creating HTML templates using plain HTML, and adding a small java class for each.
Tapestry is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Tapestry is an open source tool with 128 GitHub stars and 95 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Tapestry's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Tapestry?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Tapestry in their tech stacks, including Finance Active, sigh, and Beckon.
Developers
11 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tapestry.
Tapestry Integrations
JavaScript, HTML5, Java, Scala, and Groovy are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tapestry. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Tapestry.
Tapestry's Features
- Pure Java and Polyglot
- Convention over Configuration
- Highly Productive
- Scalable
- Testable
Tapestry Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Tapestry?
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
Quilt
Install data with one command. Discover packages from the community. Share your packages (or keep them private).
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
