 
Tapestry is a component based framework for creating sophisticated web applications.
It's used with existing application servers, acting as a kind of "super servlet".
The Tapestry Home Page
contains much more information about what Tapestry
is, how to use it and why you can't live without it!
Tapestry is distributed as a single distribution, including source code, compiled frameworks,
examples and documentation.
The JARs were created on
@OS_NAME@ @OS_VERSION@
using the
@JAVA_VENDOR@ JDK @JAVA_VM_VERSION@
compiler.
This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation
(http://www.apache.org/).
 Configuration
Documentation
Third Party Jars
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Configuration
Tapestry ships with the the Tapestry Tutorial and the Virtual Library demo applications, which are very
easy to configure and run. To run these Tapestry appliations please ensure:
- JDK 1.3 or newer JVM is installed, and the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set.
- Ant 1.5 or newer is installed, and is added
to the system PATH.
To run the Tapestry Tutorial and the Virtual Library applications with the
JBoss server:
- Download JBoss 3.0.0.
JBoss is an open-source application server, used to run the database and Enterprise JavaBeans in the Virtual Library.
The Virtual Library can only be
auto-configured using the JBoss 3.0.0 distribution.
- Create the file
Tapestry/config/build.properties.
This file informs
Tapestry where JBoss as been installed.
The directory contains a template file.
Set jboss.dir to the JBoss installation
directory, for example C:/JBoss-3.0.0.
Note: Use only forward slashes in this file name.
- Execute the command:
ant -emacs configure run-jboss
This will copy and configure the necessary files in the JBoss installation directory,
then run the JBoss server, automatically deploying the Tapestry Tutorial and
the Virtual Library demonstration. (The -emacs option changes the
Ant output format to be less verbose).
Congratulations, you can now run the
Tapestry Tutorial
or the
Virtual Library applications.
To run the Tapestry Tutorial application with the
Jetty server included in this distribution:
- Execute the command:
ant run-tutorial
This will run the Jetty server and the Tapestry Tutorial application.
To deploy the Tapestry Tutorial application onto an existing
Tomcat server:
- Create the file
Tapestry/config/build.properties.
This file informs Tapestry where Tomcat as been installed.
The directory contains a template file.
Set tomcat.dir to the Tomcat installation
directory, for example C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Tomcat 4.1.
Note: Use only forward slashes in this file name.
- Execute the command:
ant deploy-tomcat
This will deploy run tutorial application onto the Tomcat server. If Tomcat is running
you should be able to access Tapestry Tutorial application, otherwise
start Tomcat to access the application.
Documentation
Tapestry documentation is distributed seperately from the main binary distribution,
in the file
Tapestry-@VERSION@-doc.tar.gz,
or is available online.
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Tapestry API Documentation
Full documentation for the Tapestry framework, the contrib
framework (which contains additional components and classes),
and all the example code.
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Tapestry Component Reference
A handy refrence to the built-in Tapestry components, with example
specifications, HTML templates and code.
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Tutorial
[PDF]
The best way to begin learning about the Tapestry framework; this document
eases the reader into basic Tapestry concepts.
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Tapestry Developer's Guide
[PDF]
Exhaustive reference for Tapestry, in extreme detail.
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Tapestry Contributor's Guide
[PDF]
A guide for advanced developers who want to contribute code back to the Tapestry framework.
Discusses coding conventions, CVS access procedures, documentation standards and the like.
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Third party JARs
Tapestry requires some third party JARs when it is compiled, as well as
at runtime. These files are are included in the distribution.
| JAR file
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Version
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License
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Description<
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| com.mortbay.jetty-jdk1.2.jar
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4.1.0
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Jetty License
| Jetty HTTP Servlet Server, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty
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| ejb.jar
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from jBoss 2.2.2
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LGPL
| EJB 1.1 , copied from the
JBoss distribution.
This library is required to compile Tapestry and
to compile and run the demos and tutorials.
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| jakarta-oro-2.0.6.jar
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2.0.6
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Apache Software License, Version 1.1
| Regular expression library
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| javax.servlet.jar
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2.3
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Apache Software License, Version 1.1
| Servlet API 2.3 reference implementation,
distributed with Jetty
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| javax.xml.jaxp.jar
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1.1
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Sun Binary Code License
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Java API for XML Processing , distributed with Jetty
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| jcommon-0.6.4jar
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0.6.4
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LGPL
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Part of JFreeChart, used in the Workbench tutorial.
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| jfreechart-0.9.2.jar
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0.9.2
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LGPL
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Part of JFreeChart, used in the Workbench tutorial.
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| log4j-1.2.6.jar
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1.2.6
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Apache Software License, Version 1.1
| Logging Toolkit, logging toolkit used by Tapestry framework classes.
More information at the log4j home page.
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| mckoidb.jar |
0.92 beta |
GPL |
McKoi
SQL Database, Java SQL Database used for the Virtual Library demonstration.
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| ognl-2.3.0-opt.jar |
2.3.0 |
BSD? |
Object Graph
Navigation Library.
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| org.apache.crimson.jar
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1.1
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Sun Binary Code License
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Sun XML Parser, Distributed with Jetty
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Tapestry is an open source project, hosted on the SourceForge and licensed
under the Apache Software License 1.1. |