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Tapestry in Action Howard M. Lewis Ship 2004 | 580 pages ISBN: 1932394117 |
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$44.95 | Softbound print book | |
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$22.50 | ThoutReader + PDF ebook | |
Book Reviews
"The copy we have in the office was passed back and forth as we all grappled
our way up the learning curve --- and it is still covered in post-it notes.
...The book does an excellent job of providing straightforward examples and
using language that is accessible to novices, then gradually working up to
more advanced techniques...The last section takes you through designing and
implementing a full Tapestry application, bringing everything
together...definitely worth the investment to have a copy for reference."
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal
"Does indeed live up to its subtitle: 'the definitive guide to Web application development with Tapestry. There are two reasons for this. First, the book's author is also the developer of Tapestry. Second, and unexpectedly, he is a good writer: his writing is clear and amusing, and he is not afraid to walk the reader through the tricky bits. ...this book gives you what you need to understand the components, while you try them out for yourself."
-- Computing Reviews
"Highly recommended.
I rate it as highly recommended, not because there is little competion, neither because the author also happens to be the main designer and developer, but because it is well written, attractively presented and very practical in its use of example projects and code fragments."
-- C Vu, the Journal of the ACCU
"From the creation of new components to integration J2EE, Tapestry in Action covers everything and
does so with a thoroughly "user friendly" text enhanced with simple examples. No Java reference collection
can be considered complete or comprehensive without the inclusion of Howard Ship's Tapestry in Action."
-- Internet BookWatch
"If you're going to be working with Tapestry then there
is no doubt that this IS the book you want . . .
it definitely will guide you along that journey . . ."
-- TheServerSide.com
"A great book about how to change the way you develop web applications. Tapestry in Action is your exit route from the ugly world of stateless HTTP pages and spaghetti HTML intertwingled with Java code and various macros. The steep learning curve is a small price to pay for a two or three-fold improvement in overall productivity. This book should help you get started really quickly."
-- JavaLobby.org reviewer Adrian Spinei
"I have enjoyed reading Tapestry in Action ...Howard has done a really nice job of providing a server-side page & component model that more closely corresponds to my way of hinking about user interaction than other frameworks."
-- Rick Ross, JavaLobby.org
"If you want to learn all about Tapestry, this is the right book for you. You will learn how to develop simple and complex web applications, how to build reusable components, but you will also understand the internals of the framework. All in a book.
Conversely, if your goal is only to have an overview of the framework, be prepared to face an high-detailed and complex book, and dive through the secrets and the difficulties of writing a modern MVC framework. Definitely, it is not a "for dummies" book."
-- Java User Group Milano (Italy)
"Tapestry is a powerful presentation framework for web applications using components, but the project has been lacking current, extensive documentation. This new book by the creator of Tapestry has met the challenge. It is composed three major parts: getting started, developing Tapestry components, and putting it all together into a J2EE application complete with EJB. Fortunately, for the web app novice, Howard starts at the beginning. The prerequisites are fairly low. A moderate level of knowledge of Java and HTML are basically all that is required to follow the coding examples. Also, UML sequence diagrams are used to illustrate the flow of the Tapestry framework as described in the text.
One of the "knocks" against Tapestry has been the stiff learning curve. This book should help reader overcome this hurdle. Insight into the framework is built in a logical, incremental fashion. Because of this structure, it is best to read the book front to back unless you already are knowledgeable about Tapestry. The middle section will also serve as a good reference for building custom Tapestry components.
This is a great book. It is well written, relatively easy to follow, and about an interesting, timely product. If you are planning a J2EE project, this book and the framework deserve a look. Thankfully, Howard does not waste pages in an anti-Struts diatribe, but rather focuses on how Tapestry improves web development. Your challenge is how to fit that explanation into your boss�s attention span."
-- Columbia Java Users Group
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