At NFJS Boston last month, I ran into Alex Kotchnev. We had a number of chats about Tapestry and spurring wide adoption. I'm still working on some of those ideas. He's a NetBeans user whereas most of the documentation assumes Eclipse or IDEA. He's posted a blog about use Tapestry in NetBeans; specifically, using the Maven support to avoid typing the dreaded Maven project creation incantation.
Perhaps someday the Tapestry web site could feature a little Java Web Start application that would setup a new project for you. It's GUI would ask the pertinent questions, maybe download maven (or its relevant parts if that's applicable), and create the stub app.
ReplyDelete