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Tapestry in Action Howard M. Lewis Ship 2004 | 580 pages ISBN: 1932394117 |
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Foreward
My involvement with Tapestry began in the autumn of 2001. I read about the framework in an article in ONJava magazine. At the same time, our company was poised to begin several new web projects, and we were looking for a way to avoid the problems inherent in building complex web pages and forms with the standard tools. We analyzed a large number of frameworks, but Tapestry immediately attracted our attention, with its unique development method and its helpful community.
The first glance was not misleading—Tapestry proved to be a powerful and helpful instrument in practice as well. The component structure was not simply an add-on but was entrenched in the philosophy of the framework. We also discovered that Tapestry offered a number of other powerful features that proved to be critical in our work. For example, it allowed a clean separation between Java and HTML, and made it possible for the design work on the application to continue well after the code had been completed—and it could be performed by designers who never had to know anything about Tapestry. It provided internationalization capabilities well beyond simply replacing text with its translation. The framework was designed with EJBs and clustering in mind, and integrated with them effortlessly.
Today our company has libraries containing hundreds of Tapestry components. Some of these are simple, such as a Login component that manages authentication using HTTP cookies. Others are far more complex, constructed from smaller components and full of intricate JavaScript, such as a tool for dynamically defining web forms. All of these components can simply be taken off the shelf and plugged into our latest application with ease. We do not have to worry how the various components will work together—we know that they will do so by design.
During the two years we have worked with Tapestry, its development has not stood still. While the earlier versions of the framework concentrated on delivering power, version 3.0 (described in this book) concentrates on both delivering maximum ease of use for programmers and enhancing their productivity. It lowers the entry requirements, decreases the amount of developer effort needed, and makes the framework as easy to use as a scripting language for simple applications. The result is that you can achieve the same results as before but with much less coding.
The majority of these improvements have occurred and moved forward due to feedback and ideas from Tapestry users and contributors. The active community surrounding the framework helps it remain focused on resolving the problems developers encounter in the real world. A major commendation for encouraging and integrating the contributions must also go to Howard Lewis Ship, the author of this book. As the creator and original designer of Tapestry, he has made a remarkable effort to listen to users, understand their needs, and address their requirements. The other Tapestry contributors have followed his lead and have extended the framework to provide support for a variety of new functionality areas. The community has also been instrumental in the process that made Tapestry a part of the Apache Jakarta family. With this step, it became a companion project of other popular projects, including Struts, Tomcat, and log4J. All of these factors ensure that Tapestry will persist in its evolution and will continue to improve the ways in which it makes the life of web developers easier and more productive.
This book will allow you to delve into a different, better world of web development than the one you have known. It will show you an innovative approach for creating and organizing your applications, enable you to develop more robust and scalable code, and make previously difficult tasks much simpler. After you get to know Tapestry, you will start looking at web development in a very different way. Enjoy!
Theodore Tonchev
“Mindbridge”
Technical Director, Rushmore Digital
DESCRIPTION
Get a first hand look at Tapestry in action by trying the Hello World example provided by Howard Lewis Ship, creator of Tapestry and author of the book.
Many web development frustrations can be traced back to the underlying stateless HTTP protocol. Tapestry represents state and behavior as standard Java objects, methods and properties. That means state management and multithreading are handled by the framework, leaving you with just your application's business logic. Tapestry does more, you do less.
Tapestry in Action is the definitive guide to the Tapestry approach: creating full-featured web apps by connecting framework components to economical amounts of application code. Many simple examples show you how to tackle common tasks such as form validation, application localization, client-side scripting, and synchronization between browser and app server. Later chapters discuss more advanced topics including creation of new components and integration with J2EE.
If you want to create great web applications using Tapestry and know Java (plus plain-vanilla HTML and a little XML), this book is for you.
What's Inside
- Tapestry's Component Object Model
- How to write new components
- How to configure third party components
- Dynamic JavaScript integration
- Form validation
- Tapestry/JSP integration
- Localization/internationalization
- J2EE integration
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"... masterfully written, making this elegant framework accessible to all Java web developers."
-- Erik Hatcher, co-author of Java Development with Ant
"Tapestry In Action absolutely rocks!"
-- Bill Lear, Wayport Inc./DejaNews
"Tapestry is "the way" ...and there is no better authority on the subject than Howard Lewis Ship."
-- Geoff Longman, Intelligent Works, developer of Spindle for Eclipse
"I found this book just right--for newcomers and experienced Tapestry developers alike."
-- Richard Lewis-Shell, Techcon
"Keep your html code-free--write OO webpages the Tapestry way!"
-- Joel Trunick, SmartPrice.com