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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications

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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications
Jan, 2008 | 280 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Tapestry 5
Tapestry 5
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Foreword
Foreword
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1
Introduction to Tapestry
Introduction to Tapestry
Why is Tapestry Special?
Is Tapestry the Savior in the World of Java Web Development?
Summary
2
Creating Your Working Environment
Creating Your Working Environment
Install a JDK
Install Maven
Install NetBeans
Installing Eclipse
Installing Tomcat
Configuring the Project in Eclipse
Summary
3
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?
Summary
4
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
Summary
5
Advanced Components
Advanced Components
Grid Component
Tweaking the Grid
Changing the Column Titles
Using GridDataSource
BeanEditForm Component
Tweaking BeanEditForm
DateField Component
Changing the Styles of Grid and BeanEditForm
FCKEditor Component
Summary
6
User Input Validation
User Input Validation
Adding Validation to Components
Validators
Providing Custom Error Messages
Handling Validation-Related Form Events
Cross-Form Validation
BeanEditForm Validation
Summary
7
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
Summary
8
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
Summary
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

About the Author

Alexander Kolesnikov is an author and software developer from Greenock, Scotland. He wrote his first program in FORTRAN back in 1979 for a computer that occupied several rooms. He currently works as a Java Web Developer for CIGNA International. A Soviet military researcher in the past, he recently graduated as a Master of Science with Distinction in Enterprise Systems Development from Glasgow Caledonian University and has also gained a number of professional certifications from Sun Microsystems (SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD). His first book on software development was "Java Drawing With Apache Batik" (BrainySoftware, 2007).

He is interested in many things, ranging from the most recent web technologies to alternative medicine and wishes wholeheartedly that a day was at least three times longer than it is.

I am grateful to the people who made my Tapestry quest happen, and thanks to whom it goes on and on: Howard Lewis Ship, the creator of Tapestry, with special thanks for finding time to review this book; Brian Hainey, my tutor at Glasgow Caledonian, for suggesting Tapestry as a topic for my MSc dissertation; Ian McClure, my manager at CIGNA, who bravely accepted Tapestry as the framework for our next major project, and Viraj Joshi from Packt Publishing whose insightfulness made this book possible.

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