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Welcome to the Tapestry 5 Documentation. A rich collection of guides is available to teach beginners the basics and help experienced developers deepen their understanding of Tapestry's power. Code less, deliver more!

Highlights

These are the most useful starting points for common needs.

Introduction	An overview of Tapestry's general approach and philosophy
Getting Started	A quick guide to creating your first Tapestry project, using Maven
Tapestry Tutorial	Picks up where Getting Started leaves off, explaining in greater detail how Tapestry works
User Guide	Detailed articles on every Tapestry feature
Community	Getting support, mailing lists, JIRA, outside resources, and access to the source
Cookbook	A guide to common overrides and extensions to Tapestry
FAQ	A quick place to check for common problems and solutions
Component Cheat Sheet	A concise guide to component classes, methods and annotations
Refcard	A color, six page foldout guide to Tapestry 5.0 (PDF)

Tapestry 5 Reference and API

Current stable release 5.2.6

Previous stable release 5.1.0.5

Previous stable release 5.0.18

Current alpha release 5.3.0
- API (Javadoc)
- Release Notes

User Guide

The User Guide consists of over 75 pages of detailed information on the concepts behind Tapestry and instructions on how to use this powerful tool. Highlights include:

JavaScript and Ajax and Zones describe Tapestry's built-in support for dynamic in-page behavior.
Integrating with Spring Framework describes how to integrate Spring into your Tapestry application.
Tapestry/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.

Published Articles on Tapestry

This eBook published in 2009 contains a good introduction and analysis of Tapestry 5

Tapestry 5 for Nonbelievers will convince the skeptical why Tapestry is the best web framework.

Tapestry Developer and Community Blogs

Tapestry Central is Howard Lewis Ship's blog. As the creator of Tapestry, he provides a lot of valuable information on Tapestry's latest features and future directions.
Igor Drobiazko's blog contains a lot of fresh news on Tapestry development and will guide you through the most exciting parts of Tapestry. Igor is a Tapestry Committer and PMC member.
Andreas Andreou's blog (committer & PMC) has lots of news and entries on Tapestry 4 and 5.
Spread the source's blog (Christophe Cordenier and Robin Komiwes committers's blog) has lots of news and advanced tutorials on Tapestry 5.
Java Magic (Taha Hafeez' blog} has a series of tutorials illustrating some of the more advanced Tapestry and Plastic features and techniques.

Books on Tapestry

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

Tapestry Presentations

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

Tapestry Wikis

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

Getting help

The primary method of support is the Tapestry Mailing Lists.

In addition, there is an active flow of questions and answers about Tapestry at Stack Overflow.

The Developer Corner

Developer Information gives information needed by the Tapestry developers

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