One book like this cannot cover everything that comes with Tapestry 5. To discover the power of AJAX and how easily it can be used from a Tapestry web application, to learn how to integrate Tapestry with popular back end frameworks like Spring or Hibernate, to see how readily Tapestry can be configured and extended to deliver exactly what you want from the framework, another book would be needed, or even more than one book.
However, we were able to cover quite a lot here. In particular, we have learned:
What Tapestry is, why it is special and how Tapestry 5 relates to the previous versions.
How to create a Tapestry project skeleton using Maven and then work with it using both Eclipse and NetBeans IDE.
The core concepts of Tapestry, including pages and how they are handled by the framework, how to navigate from page to page and how to pass information between pages.
What are expansions, components, and how components can be defined in different ways.
How to structure a Tapestry web application...