remains more or less unknown

et Tapestry remains more or less unknown to a great majority of web developers, for numerous reasons. The most obvious is Tapestry's legendary "steep learning curve" which, in my opinion, is more myth than reality: Tapestry is in fact easier to learn and use than are many other frameworks. Yes, internally Tapestry is more complex than its predecessors, in the same way that a contemporary camcorder is much more complex than those mechanical devices that our grandfathers used to produce their amateur movies. But is a camcorder more difficult to use? No, it is much, much easier (believe me -- I've tried both types of devices).