We are already familiar with a significant number of Tapestry components, and using them, we can build sophisticated and functionally rich interfaces. It so happens however, that many web applications have certain patterns repeating on their pages. For example, they have tables that display different data or they have forms that accept user input and then put the submitted details into some kind of Java Bean object.

Wouldn't it be convenient to have such repeating patterns already implemented as components, ready to be dropped onto a page? It certainly would, and the current version of Tapestry 5 already comes with a few components of this kind. They are great effort savers for us, and in this chapter we are going to introduce them and use them in our Celebrity Collector application.

Following are some of the components, we'll examine: