Tapestry: Contents

Getting Started

Tapesty is now distributed with pre-compiled Jars for the main framework (Tapestry.jar) as well as the tutorials and examples. These files are in the lib directory.

However, Tapestry requires additional files to compile or deploy .. fortunately, all of these are open source or freely available. In order to build Tapestry or to build and run the tutorials and example code, you will need to get distributions for the following packages, and copy the necessary Jar files to the lib directory.

JAR file	Description<	Location<
j2ee.jar	Sun's reference implementation of the J2EE libraries.	http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html
gnu-regexp.jar	GNU regular expression compiler framework.	ftp://tapestry.sourceforge.net/pub/tapestry/gnu-regexp-0.1.8.zip
xerces.jar	Xerces XML Parser from Apache	ftp://tapestry.sourceforge.net/pub/tapestry/Xerces-J-bin.1.0.3.zip or http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html
javax.servlet.jar com.mortbay.jetty.jar com.sun.net.ssl.jar org.apache.jasper.jar	Jetty 3 framework (Jetty is an open source servlet container)	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty

Documentation

Tapestry has quite a bit of documentation available.

• Tapestry Tutorial (PDF) -- A good introduction to what Tapestry is and how to use it.
• Tapestry API (Javadoc)
• Tapestry Examples (HTML) -- guide to Tapestry example and tutorial code
• Tapestry Whitepaper (PDF) -- show overview of Tapestry
• Tapestry Developer's Guide (PDF) -- main reference for designing and developing Tapestry applications
• Java Build Environment (PDF) -- guide to setting up and using the JBE (a set of Makefiles used to build and run Tapestry and Tapestry applications).

Tapestry is an open source project, hosted on the SourceForge and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.