Quite often, we might want to give the users of our application an opportunity not only to enter a message, but also to format it similarly to how they would do this in a familiar word processor. There are JavaScript-enabled rich text editors available for this purpose, the most famous of them is perhaps FCKEditor (http://www.fckeditor.net/), but integrating such an editor into a web application might require additional knowledge and effort.

Thankfully, there is a custom Tapestry 5 component developed by Ted Steen and Olof Naessen that wraps FCKEditor. As a result, we can use this excellent rich text editor in the same way like any other Tapestry component. The component can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/tapestry5-fckeditor/ as a JAR file (make sure you pick the version, 1.0.2 or later). The name of the file will be similar to tapestry5-fckeditor-1.0.2.jar. Please put it into the WEB-INF/lib subfolder of our web application. In Eclipse, you might want to...