TSS新闻：TSS重构，基于Tapestry和JDO项目

TSS最近重构其网站的后端底层代码，将基于Tapestry和JDO(Solarmetric Kodo)项目，以取代已经运行近5年的基于自开发servlet框架和BMP entity bean技术的底层框架技术。TSS声明：这个决定并没有政治动机，而是基于自身需要和现有可用技术。 （不过这不能不让人到前端被否决的JDO规范产生联想）

TSS recently relaunched its back end infrastructure on Tapestry and JDO (Solarmetric Kodo), replacing an older home-grown servlet framework + BMP entity bean layer that was in place for nearly 5 years. These choices were not politically motivated, but based on our requirements and available resources.

Tapestry founder Howard Lewis Ship did the Tapestry conversion and has written an article about it. You can read the article here:
http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=TSSTapestry

We chose Tapestry because:
- Its component approach was well suited to TSS, which has many similar pages with minor differences
- Simplicity of HTML templates well suited to editting by content editors
- We had the #1 Tapestry Expert on hand :-)

JDO through SolarMetric Kodo was the right choice for us because:
- It's a standard so we weren't locked in
- It's a compelling solution to POJO persistence that is available now, not in 2006
- It allowed us to be more flexible with our object model
- Kodo itself has a lot of optimizations that fit in well with our cluster architecture (distributed query caches, etc)
- Solid integration with Tangosol Coherence
- Tools: Top class query browser. Tool that shows us performance hot points, etc

The conversion of TheServerSide.com to Tapestry and JDO has been a success. Performance and stability are at least as good as the 1.0 version of the application (largely thanks to improved caching provided by the combination of Solarmetric Kodo JDO for database access, and Tangosol Coherence for cluster-wide caching). End users have barely noticed the changes, except in the form of user interface improvements.

With this new infrastructure in place we will be in a position to more quickly evolve TSS and bring you new features. We thank our partners Howard Lewis Ship (Tapestry) and SolarMetric for all their help.