Manning - Tapestry in Action

About this Book

Tapestry is a comprehensive web application framework for the Java programming language. Tapestry is based on components, highly reusable building blocks that can be quickly and easily combined to form pages within your application. By using and reusing components, and creating your own components, you can create richly interactive, robust applications with only a modest effort.

Tapestry?s basic style is to break problems into smaller and smaller units; this complements a team development environment where different developers work on different parts of the application. The framework makes it easy for both Java and HTML-only developers to work together without accidentally undermining each other?s work.

When building a web application with any technology, you will be faced with a constant stream of questions: How do I figure out what the user has requested? Where can I store this bit of information? How can I safely add this new functionality? How can I make my application scale? In too many environments, it?s easy to make the wrong decision when confronted with any of these, and many other, development-time questions. It?s too easy to take a quick-and-dirty detour down the wrong path, which ultimately comes back to bite you when you are least prepared to deal with it.

The central goal of Tapestry is to make the easiest choice the correct choice. Over the course of this book, we?ll show you how to build applications using Tapestry, but we will also show you the hidden traps and tangles that Tapestry helps you to avoid.