Welcome to the Tapestry 5 Documentation, a collection of guides to teach beginners the basics and help experienced developers deepen their understanding of Tapestry's power.

Highlights

These are the most useful starting points for common needs.

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Tapestry 5 documentation

Welcome to Tapestry 5 documentation root page. Looking for something, check here first !

Overview

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• Current stable release 5.1.0.5
  • API (Javadoc)
  • Component Reference
  • Release Notes

• Previous stable release 5.0.18
  • API (Javadoc)
  • Component Reference
  • Release Notes

• Current beta release 5.2.4
  • API (Javadoc)
  • Component Reference
  • Release Notes

Along the reference documentation, we provide a set of concise guides to help you in your everyday work with Tapestry.

• Component Cheat Sheet is a concise guide to component classes, methods and annotations
• Refcard A color, six page foldout guide to Tapestry 5.0 (PDF)

API and Component Reference

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User Guide

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We provide a collection of detailed references to The User Guide consists of over 75 pages of detailed information on the concepts behind Tapestry and beyond.

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instructions on how to use this powerful tool. Highlights include:

• Client-Side JavaScript and Ajax and Zones describe

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• Tapestry's built-in

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• support for dynamic in-page behavior.
• Integrating with Spring Framework describes how to integrate

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• Spring into your Tapestry application.

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• Tapestry

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Articles

If you have any doubts, Tapestry 5 for Nonbelievers will demonstrate why you should choose Tapestry 5!

• /Hibernate Integration Library provides out-of-the-box support for using Hibernate 3.
• JSR 303: Bean Validation shows how to use standard annotations for validation
• Integration Testing shows how to test your application with Selenium.

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Blogs by Tapestry Developers and the Community

• Tapestry Central is Howard Lewis Ship's blog. As the creator of Tapestry, he provides a lot of valuable information on valuable insights into Tapestry's latest features and future directions.
• Igor Drobiazko's blog contains a lot of fresh (committer & PMC) contains news on Tapestry development and will guide you through some of the most exciting parts of Tapestry. Igor is a Tapestry Committer and PMC member.

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• Java Magic (by Taha Hafeez, committer) has a series of tutorials illustrating some of the more advanced Tapestry and Plastic features and techniques.

Books on Tapestry

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There are at least 8 9 published books on Tapestry, including two three on Tapestry 5 — and more on the way.

Tapestry Presentations

• Mark Shead's 10 Minute Demo
• H. L. Ship's Tapestry 5.4 - Bootstrap-enhanced Exception Reporting
• JavaServer Faces 2.0 vs. Tapestry 5: (PDF) A Head-to-Head Comparison by Igor Drobiazko at Jazoon 2010
• Tapestry 5: Java power, Scripting Ease (VIDEO) by Howard Lewis Ship at Devoxx 2009

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Tapestry Wikis

• Tapestry Community 's Wiki (Moin Moin) contains a lot of user-generated information on different concrete web application Tapestry use cases.
• Documentation Source wiki (Confluence) – the wiki used as the content editor for the official Tapestry documentation

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Getting help

The primary method of support is the Tapestry Mailing Lists.

In addition, there are occasionally questions and answers about Tapestry at Stack Overflow.

The Developer Corner

Developer Information gives information needed by the Tapestry developers

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