Thanks for downloading Tapestry! The main Tapestry distribution includes pre-compiled JAR files: - tapestry-x.x.jar the main Tapestry framework - tapestry-contrib-x-x.jar additional contributed components - tapestry-annotations-x-x.jar JDK 1.5 annotation support - tapestry-portlet-x-x.jar JSR-168 Portlet support In addition, the main distribution includes all the source code and build scripts for Tapestry as well as a few example applications. Documentation for Tapestry is a seperate download, available at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_tapestry.cgi The documentation includes everything available on the Tapestry home page, at http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/ Tapestry now includes a getting-started guide; see http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/QuickStart/index.html Tapestry has a number of additional runtime dependencies which must be downloaded and packaged with the above JARS in the WEB-INF/lib folder of Tapestry web applications. The Ant build scripts for Tapestry will automatically download these dependencies. The build scripts require some configuration to work; details are available at http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-tapestry/BuildingTapestry Alternately, you may download the dependencies individually. Details at http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/dependencies.html