RE: Developing WAP Applications using Tapesty

Hi Sasha,
 
What a coincidence! I implemented a WAP prototype 2 years ago;
unfortunately I didn't have the rights to distribute the WAP components.
Now LegoSof, the company I work for, has the project to develop an
online banking system for WAP. The good news is I negotiated to have the
rights of the components; I have plans to donate them to the Tapestry
project if Howard decides to accept them.
 
What are you looking for: WAP components for Tapestry or better XML
support plus XSL servlet filters?
 
Howard, do you have some ideas to improve XML support?
 
Do you have a deadline?
 
Regards
 
David
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sasha Haghani [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Developing WAP Applications using Tapesty
 
Hi David,
 
My name is Sasha Haghani and I am new to Tapestry development.  I'm
exploring the feasibility of using Tapestry to develop WAP applications
(as well as possibly other non-HTML browser-based applications).  I saw
through your quote at http://tapestry.sourceforge.net/quotes_frame.html
that you're using Tapestry for WML development, so I thought you'd be a
good person to answer some of my questions.
 
Howard Ship provided me with your e-mail address (see the attached
message) -- I hope you don't mind.
 
I originally posted a message to the Tapestry developer's mailing list
but didn't receive any responses.  Here's an extract:
 
"As I understand it one of the major benefits of Tapestry is the way it
cleanly seperates the Java development and web design specialties by
using standard HTML pages, with some augmented by transparent HTML
elements and attributes, as its templating mechanism.  This allows web
designers to work with standard HTML development tools and to be able to
preview and browse a static web of template files (with sample content).
Correct?
 
I was wondering how this can be extended to WML, or other XML-based
markup languages for that matter (like VoiceXML, XHTML, etc.), which
must be well-formed, and even valid (depending on the tools/viewers
used).
 
Would it be possible to develop (or better yet has anyone written and
contributed) "filter" components which strip out the Tapestry special
tags and make the links active so that the templates could be made
previewable/browsable?  I guess this filters could also be developed
outside Tapestry itself (if appropriate), possibly as Servlet 2.3
filters.
 
Any info and insights on these specific questions and on WML (or
XML-based markup) development with Tapestry in general would be greatly
appreciated."
 
How much effort did you have to invest in order to make the
out-of-the-box Tapestry distribution work for WML development?  What in
particular was required in terms of development (new componenents,
extending existing ones, etc.)?
 
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide David -- it is truly
greatly appreciated.
 
 
Regards,
 
Sasha Haghani,
Toronto, Canada.