Howard Lewis Ship

Creator of Apache Tapestry

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java. Lately, he's been dipping his toes into alternate languages, including Clojure.

Howard is the author of Tapestry in Action for Manning Publications (which covers Tapestry 3.0). He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, a novelist, and his son, Jacob.

Howard is an independent consultant, offering Tapestry training, mentoring and project work as well as training in Clojure.

Blog

Groovin' on the Testin'

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010

I'm at the point now where I'm writing Groovy code for (virtually) all my unit and integration tests. Tapestry's testing code is pretty densely written more »

Tapestry Frequently Asked Questions

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I'm taking some time to work on the Tapestry documentation . more »

Tapestry 5.2 leaves the gate

Posted Monday, August 9, 2010

It's been a long time coming. Originally, I had thought we'd be producing Tapestry 5.2 six to eight months after Tapestry more »
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Presentations



Books

by Howard M. Lewis Ship

Tapestry in Action (In Action series) Buy from Amazon
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  • The creator of Tapestry details how to use this new framework's components to create rich web-based GUIs using links, images, and HTML forms. The challenges of web application development are discussed, such as managing server-side state properly, application localization, and maintaining synchronization between the client web browser and the application server. At the same time, the benefits of a clean separation between presentation logic and business logic and how well Tapestry succeeds in keeping these two concerns apart are identified. Targeted to new Tapestry users and even developers new to creating web applications in general, this guide includes extensive notes on development "gotchas", including common Tapestry errors and how to fix them. Advanced techniques are covered as well, including creating entirely new components, integration with traditional servlet and JSP applications, and creation of client-side JavaScript. Finally, a complete J2EE application, the Virtual Library, is presented and analyzed in detail.