Tapestry Release 0.2.8a

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". This distribution contains the Tapestry framework, related frameworks and libraries, documentation. The Tapestry Home Page contains much more information about what Tapestry is, how to use it and why you should!

Tapestry is distributed in three different sizes:

• small -- just Tapestry.jar, gnu-regexp.jar, the Tapestry Developer's Guide and the javadoc for Tapestry
• medium -- small, plus Tapestry source code, the JBE (Java Build Environment) and JBE documentation
• full -- medium, plus third party JARs used by Tapestry, more Tapestry documentation, Tapestry tutorials and the Primix Virtual Library examples

The JARs were compiled on Windows 2000 using Sun's JDK 1.3 compiler, however it is easy to rebuild the JARs on different platforms and different compilers (JDK 1.2 and above).

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation ( http://www.apache.org/).

Third party JARs

JAR file	Description<	Version	License	Location<
gnu-regexp.jar	GNU regular expression compiler Used by Tapestry to parse HTML templates	1.0.8	GNU Public License	ftp://tapestry.sourceforge.net/pub/tapestry/gnu-regexp-0.1.8.zip
xerces.jar	Xerces XML Parser Used by Tapestry to parse application and component specifications	1.0.3	Apache Software License, Version 1.1	ftp://tapestry.sourceforge.net/pub/tapestry/Xerces-J-bin.1.0.3.zip or http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html
com.mortbay.jetty.jar	Jetty HTTP Servlet Server	3.0.1	Jetty License	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty
javax.servlet.jar	Servlet API 2.2 reference implementation		Apache Software License, Version 1.1	Distributed with Jetty
org.apache.jasper.jar	Jasper JSP Engine	3.2.1	Apache Software License, Version 1.1	Distributed with Jetty
ejb.jar	EJB 1.1	from jBoss 2.0 FINAL	Unknown license, probably GPL	Copied from the jBoss distribution, which claims to be open source (but neglects to provide a license). This library is required to compile Tapestry and to compile and run the demos and tutorials.

Documentation

Tapestry has quite a bit of documentation available (most of these links will be broken if you did not download the full distribution).

• Tapestry Tutorial (PDF) -- A good introduction to what Tapestry is and how to use it.
• Primix Virtual Library Guide (PDF) -- Describes how to setup and run the Virtual Library demonstration, a complete J2EE application implemented using Tapestry.
• Tapestry API (Javadoc)
• Tapestry Examples (HTML) -- guide to Tapestry example and tutorial code
• Tapestry Whitepaper (PDF) -- An executive summary 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.