.Net vs. Struts ... and the winner is Tapestry!

Just something I noticed on the Cardsharp on Software blog:

Tapestry from the Jakarta Project. Yes, it's not JSF. Yes it's "non-standard." Yes, it requires you to learn a new library and a new way of doing things. But it's better. Far less configuration than Struts, and what is there makes sense. Instead of a jumble of disconnected concepts, the whole library is built around an event-driven mental model that just makes sense. Things that would take me 5 lines of code in Struts take one or two in Tapestry. Imagine being able to tie an event handler in a Java class to a link or a button with no configuration file changes! Think about forwarding to a new page and passing objects to the "action" by setting properties on it istead of hucking everthing into the request or session. Think about how much you like Tiles and imagine what it would be like if everything was a tile, but didn't require all the verbose <tiles:put> lines just to set parameters on your tiles. Think about all those times you'd wished you could put custom configuration information into your <ACTION> tags in the struts-config.xml (especially if you've tried to customize it using the <set-property> nonsense!). Think about how nice your life would be if your ActionForm and your Action were actually in the same class in a way that made sense, and think about how nice it'd be if the framework implemented all the getters and setters for you. Think about implementing complex interactions without jumping through all kinds of hoops to manage the state of your page.

And I'm only scratching the surface here.