The fourth beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-3 release. Key areas covered are fixes for minor...

So, there is a discussion going on right now on the Tapestry Users list about which two features you would like to see fixed. The initial question is posited below by Patrick Casey: Suggestion 1: Fix Rewind There are other web gui frameworks I've worked with (.NET for one) that don't have all the rewind problems that Tapestry does. For...

By now I expect that most Web Developers have heard of Ajax, if not I highly recommend you read through the preceding link. In short Ajax is a way to do dynamic Web applications without the browser round-trip (now the round-trip is done through JavaScript). We have some industrious folks in Tapestry-land who have started implementing some...

People are continually asking me why I use Maven instead of Ant for my projects. Recently I was handed a contract to work on putting a Tapestry front-end to Spring-based app (they already have Spring MVC but they were looking for someone with time to code and who has expertise with their preferred front-end). The example app I was given was...

So, I currently have 3 active projects that I am working on: Generic Plugin Engine About-Time - Time tracking for projects Truches CMS - not open, will roll into Taos Community once it is complete enough for actual use Projects on the Back-burner for the moment Hedwig - waiting for Plugin Engine to reach a usable state Taos Community - waiting to...

After delaying this for a while I have finally dug in and started writing Magma - a PHP code generation tool. Basically what I decided on architectural-wise is to mimic what Torque does. So, I started with an xml file which defines a schema and then I will generate some classes that allow me to retrieve, populate and save objects to the database...

I was having a chat with my friend Erik about some of the problems that exist in the Open Source world, specifically the Java Open Source community. So, besides the obvious (documentation), what are some of the other problems? Comparisons - There are a number of different implementations that solve the same problems. Yet these can be difficult to...

First let me preface this post by saying that I still think that Tapestry is one of the best platforms to be developing your Web application on. Having said that I think that there are some issues that need to be addressed to help improve Tapestry‘s adoption into the Java community (and Web development community as a whole). Without...

First let me preface this post by saying that I still think that Tapestry is one of the best platforms to be developing your Web application on. Having said that I think that there are some issues that need to be addressed to help improve Tapestry‘s adoption into the Java community (and Web development community as a whole). Without...

I've been using JavaForge for hosting the Tapestry 101 source code and other material since I started and I finally got around to putting some actual content up there related to the project. You can see the new site at "JavaForge":http://tapestry101.javaforge.com. I've added in links to all the downloads there and will be adding more...

I've been using JavaForge for hosting the Tapestry 101 source code and other material since I started and I finally got around to putting some actual content up there related to the project. You can see the new site at "JavaForge":http://tapestry101.javaforge.com. I've added in links to all the downloads there and will be adding more...

Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay in-between posts (it has been a busy semester for me), but I come bearing good news. SourceBeat is going to be doing Tapestry 101 as a Print-On-Demand book (POD). As a result of this we are going through and trying to find as much errata in the book as we can before the book goes off to be published. And...

Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay in-between posts (it has been a busy semester for me), but I come bearing good news. SourceBeat is going to be doing Tapestry 101 as a Print-On-Demand book (POD). As a result of this we are going through and trying to find as much errata in the book as we can before the book goes off to be published. And...

First, I want to apologize for not having the non-annotations source code available, I honestly thought we had a few more days. Never fear though I will have all the source available by the end of the weekend. Also, if you experience any problems with the build please let me know as soon as possible so I can fix it in the downloads and the...

First, I want to apologize for not having the non-annotations source code available, I honestly thought we had a few more days. Never fear though I will have all the source available by the end of the weekend. Also, if you experience any problems with the build please let me know as soon as possible so I can fix it in the downloads and the...