Thanks for your comments. I am looking for a Java framework to learn. And Tapestry seems like a good candidate. I have just written a hello-world application in Tapestry. And I have no experience in developing using tapestry. My understanding from tapestry 5.2 docs is 1. Tapestry retains the state of the pages and components. (you need to annotate your state variables though). So, I am surprised that you need to reinitialize the field every time. 2. Tapestry provides parameter blocks to pass parameters to a component. It looks similar to a function call. What am I missing here?