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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications
In this chapter, we are going to examine a number of components. I have called them simple because they map directly, or almost directly, to HTML controls and elements. Simple components are normally used on every page of a Tapestry web application, and so we should know them quite well.
There are also more complex components in Tapestry. They can save you a lot of work when creating a functionally rich interface. Those components will be discussed in the next chapter.
Instead of giving you a systematic, but dry and boring description of components and their properties, I have decided to take a different approach. We are going to build a web application—more or less close to real life, but somewhat simplified, in order not to overshadow the ideas and principles of Tapestry with details of implementation.
This means that we shall introduce components "in their natural environment", when we need them for the page we are working on—a less systematic, but more practical...
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