User Guide

Tapestry Basics

Going beyond Getting Started and the Tutorial, these topics will dive into basic Tapestry capabilities that you'll want to understand first.

• Project Layout
• Configuration
• Class Reloading
• Component Reference
• Annotations

Pages and Components

• Component Classes
• Component Templates
• Property Expressions
• Component Parameters
• Type Coercion
• Layout Component
• Component Mixins
• Page Navigation
• Localization

Request/Response Processing

• Page Life Cycle
• Request Processing
• Component Rendering
• Component Events
• URL Rewriting
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Response Compression
• Securing your application with HTTPS
• Content Type and Markup

Data persistence

• Persistent Page Data
• Session Storage

Interacting with components

• Injection
• Environmental Services

JavaScript, AJAX, CSS & Binary Data

• JavaScript
• Ajax and Zones
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Assets

Working with forms

• Forms and Validation
• BeanEditForm Guide
• Uploading files

Debugging, Testing & Tooling

• Logging & Debugging
• Unit testing pages or components
• Integration testing with Selenium
• Service Status

Tapestry IOC

As with Tapestry 5 in general, the goal of Tapestry Inversion of Control (IoC) is greater simplicity and power--without XML. You'll want to explore Tapestry IoC to make full use of the extensibility of the framework.

Architecture

• Introduction
• Overview
• Modules

Features

• Services
• Advisors
• Decorators

Configuration

• Configuration
• Case Insensitivity
• Module Autoloading
• Service Implementation Reloading
• Ordering by Constraints
• Symbols

Service Builders

Tapestry provides a set of ready-to-use service builders for common design patterns:

• Chain of Command (the ChainBuilder service)
• Pipeline (the PipelineBuilder service)
• Shadow Properties (the PropertyShadowBuilder service)
• Strategy (the StrategyBuilder service)

Usage

• Injection in detail
• Object providers
• Service Serialization

Built-in services

• Type Coercer

Registry startup & shutdown

• Starting and stopping the registry
• Listening for registry startup

Tooling

• Parallel Execution
• Logging

Built-in modules

Tapestry comes with a collection of add-on modules to let you extend the framework beyond its core.

Hibernate Integration

• Hibernate Configuration
• Hibernate User Guide
• Hibernate Statistics

Spring Integration

• Spring Core

JPA Integration

• Integrating with JPA

Other Modules

• JSR 303 Bean Validation
• Functional Flows
• JMX Integration
• JSON
• Component Report

More Modules...

Deprecated Topics

• Aliases (deprecated)