 
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 Project 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 compiled on Windows 2000 using Sun's JDK 1.2.2 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/).
 Configuration
Documentation
Third Party Jars
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Configuration
Tapestry is built using the
Ant build tool, version 1.4 or better.
You need to download and install Ant before running the Tapestry demonstrations.
You will need to download the Ant optional JAR (which includes additional Ant tasks) and place
it in your Ant lib folder.
Configuring and running the Virtual Library demo is very easy:
- Download (if needed) a JDK 1.3 or newer JVM.
- Download and configure Ant.
- Download JBoss 2.4.3.
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 2.4.3 distribution.
It is not necessary to download the JBoss-Jetty combination; the Tapestry distribution includes
Jetty and the other necessary files.
- 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-2.4.3.
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 home page and
the Virtual Library demonstration. (The -emacs option changes the
Ant output format to be less verbose).
Congradulations! You are now running not only the Virtual Library, but the complete
Tapestry home page. You can access it with the URL
http://localhost/.
Documentation
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
|
Version
|
License
|
Description<
|
| com.mortbay.jetty.jar
|
3.1.5
|
Jetty License
| Jetty HTTP Servlet Server, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetty
|
| ejb.jar
|
from jBoss 2.2.2
|
LGPL
| EJB 1.1 , 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.
|
| javax.rmi.jar |
1.0.1 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Binary Code License Agreement
|
javax.rmi classes needed to compile
for JDK 1.2.2
|
| javax.servlet.jar
|
2.2
|
Apache Software License, Version 1.1
| Servlet API 2.2 reference implementatio,
distributed with Jetty
|
| javax.xml.jaxp.jar
|
1.1
|
Sun Binary Code License
|
Java API for XML Processing , distributed with Jetty
|
| jcommon-0.5.6.jar
|
0.5.6
|
LGPL
|
Part of JFreeChart, used in the Workbench tutorial.
|
| jfreechart-0.7.4.jar
|
0.7.4
|
LGPL
|
Part of JFreeChart, used in the Workbench tutorial.
|
| jndi.jar |
1.0.1 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Binary Code License Agreement
|
javax.naming classes needed to compile
for JDK 1.2.2
|
| junit.jar |
3.7 |
IBM Public License
|
JUnit
Testing Framework, see
www.junit.org
|
| log4j-core.jar
|
1.1.3
|
Apache Software License, Version 1.1
| Logging Toolkit, logging toolkit used by Tapestry framework classes.
More information at the log4j home page.
|
| mckoidb.jar |
0.92 beta |
GPL |
McKoi
SQL Database, Java SQL Database used for the Virtual Library demonstration.
|
| org.apache.crimson.jar
|
1.1
|
Sun Binary Code License
|
Sun XML Parser, Distributed with Jetty
|
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Tapestry is an open source project, hosted on the SourceForge and licensed
under the GNU Lesser General Public License. |