Tapestry Release 1.0.0

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 can't live without it!

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

Tapestry requires some third party JARs when it is compiled, as well as at runtime. If you downloaded the full distribution, these libraries are already included. With the small and medium distribution, you will need to download the other files seperately.

JAR file Description< Version License Location<

com.mortbay.jetty.jar Jetty HTTP Servlet Server 3.1.RC5 Jetty License http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty

ejb.jar EJB 1.1 from jBoss 2.2.1 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.

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

javax.servlet.jar Servlet API 2.2 reference implementation 2.2 Apache Software License, Version 1.1 Distributed with Jetty

javax.xml.jaxp.jar Java API for XML Processing 1.1 Sun Binary Code License Distributed with Jetty

log4j-core.jar Logging Toolkit 1.0.4 Apache Software License, Version 1.1 Logging toolkit used by Tapestry framework classes. More information at the log4j home page.

org.apache.crimson.jar Sun XML Parser 1.1 Sun Binary Code License Distributed with Jetty

JAR file	Description<	Version	License	Location<
com.mortbay.jetty.jar	Jetty HTTP Servlet Server	3.1.RC5	Jetty License	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty
ejb.jar	EJB 1.1	from jBoss 2.2.1	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.
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
javax.servlet.jar	Servlet API 2.2 reference implementation	2.2	Apache Software License, Version 1.1	Distributed with Jetty
javax.xml.jaxp.jar	Java API for XML Processing	1.1	Sun Binary Code License	Distributed with Jetty
log4j-core.jar	Logging Toolkit	1.0.4	Apache Software License, Version 1.1	Logging toolkit used by Tapestry framework classes. More information at the log4j home page.
org.apache.crimson.jar	Sun XML Parser	1.1	Sun Binary Code License	Distributed with Jetty

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 (HTML) -- 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 (HTML) -- main reference for designing and developing Tapestry applications
Java Build Environment (HTML) -- 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.