Contemporary technologies like Sun's JavaServer Faces or Microsoft's ASP.NET
rely on specialized development environments to handle the complexities of mixing
a dynamic logic with HTML markup, but design capabilities of such specialized
environments are unavoidably limited. As a result, the page design remains quite
simplistic and less impressive. Code that is automatically generated by these
development environments is usually far from being perfect as it has much duplication
and is hard to maintain.
For many applications, it often makes sense to have a special team of designers
or to use the services of an external team in order to have a professional looking
interface. Unfortunately, in most web technologies the conversion of a thoroughly
designed page into an HTML template is a one way procedure. The result becomes
incomprehensible for any designer not familiar with programming techniques. So
when it comes to a significant change in page design, it might be easier to discard the
existing page and start from scratch.
Tapestry solves all these problems in the most elegant way. In Tapestry 3 and 4,
templates are valid HTML documents that can be easily read and edited by any
designer using a common designer's software, without breaking the logic of the
page.
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