Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications

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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications

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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications

Overview of this book

Tapestry 5

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

Preface

Foreword

Free Chapter

Introduction to Tapestry

Introduction to Tapestry

Why is Tapestry Special?

Is Tapestry the Savior in the World of Java Web Development?

Creating Your Working Environment

Creating Your Working Environment

Install NetBeans

Installing Eclipse

Installing Tomcat

Configuring the Project in Eclipse

The Foundations of Tapestry

The Foundations of Tapestry

Tapestry Application is a Set of Interactive Pages

Page Template and Page Class

Using Expansions

Using Components

Passing a Value Between Pages

What Can be Returned From an Event Handler

Tapestry Pages are Pooled

Making a Page Field Persistent

Using Page Activation Context

Different Ways of Defining Components

Structuring the Application

Creating and Using an Application State Object

Was an ASO Already Instantiated?

Simple Components

Simple Components

Celebrity Collector Project

The Auxiliary Classes

TextField, PasswordField and PageLink

Limiting Access to a Page

Loop, Output and DirectLink

Another Use of PageLink Component

Radio and RadioGroup

Using Enumerations for Radio Component Values

Prefixes: prop and literal

The If and Checkbox Components

Submit Component

More Than One Submit Button

Select Component

Configuring an Application State Object

Advanced Components

Advanced Components

Tweaking the Grid

Changing the Column Titles

Using GridDataSource

BeanEditForm Component

Tweaking BeanEditForm

DateField Component

Changing the Styles of Grid and BeanEditForm

FCKEditor Component

User Input Validation

User Input Validation

Adding Validation to Components

Providing Custom Error Messages

Handling Validation-Related Form Events

Cross-Form Validation

BeanEditForm Validation

Internationalization and Localization

Internationalization and Localization

Internationalization on the Java Platform

Internationalization in Tapestry

Creating and Using Message Catalogs

Providing a German Message Catalog

Switching Locale

Internationalization of Images

Using Localized Templates

Other Examples of Internationalization

Creating Custom Components

Creating Custom Components

How to Create a Tapestry 5 Component

Creating the Border Component

Adding a Navigation Menu

Using a Parameter

Unleashing the Power of Select Component

Creating an OptionModel

Creating a SelectModel

Creating a ValueEncoder

Selecting a Celebrity

DateInput Component

Making DateInput a Field

Adding Simple Validation

Creating a Universal Locale Switcher

Creating a Custom Service

Creating a Library of Custom Components

The Basics of Java for the Web

The Basics of Java for the Web

The Standard Structure of a Java Web Application

The Basics of the Deployment Descriptor

WAR Files Basics

About Java-Enabled Servers

Creating a Real Data Source with db4o

Creating a Real Data Source with db4o

Preparing the Database

The Main Operations

The Final Strokes

Where to Go Next

Where to Go Next

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Summary

Tapestry is a contemporary, feature-rich, component-based, AJAX-enabled Java web framework.

Tapestry was specifically designed to greatly increase the productivity of web development by being user-friendly, easy to understand and learn, and by minimizing the amount of coding. Tapestry 5 incorporates the latest ideas in software development and it is even easier to use, configure and extend than the previous versions. It is also significantly faster.

Tapestry is a perfect tool for any kind of web development—from a personal website to an enterprise-scale solution. Arguably, Tapestry is the future of Java web development.

In the next chapter we are going to create a working environment for Tapestry development, which means that we shall download, install and configure all the necessary pieces of software. After that, we shall create our first Tapestry project—a very simple one, just to make sure that everything works properly.