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Welcome to the Tapestry 5 Documentation, a collection of guides to teach beginners the basics and help experienced developers deepen their understanding of Tapestry's power.

Highlights

These are the most useful starting points for common needs.

Introduction	An overview of Tapestry's general approach and philosophy
Getting Started	A quick guide to creating your first Tapestry project, using Maven
Tapestry Tutorial	Picks up where Getting Started leaves off, explaining in greater detail how Tapestry works
User Guide	Detailed articles on every Tapestry feature
Community	Getting support, mailing lists, JIRA, outside resources, and access to the source
Cookbook	Guides to doing common things with Tapestry
FAQ	A quick place to check for common problems and solutions
Component Cheat Sheet	A concise guide to component classes, methods and annotations

API and Component Reference

API (Javadoc):	5.0¹	5.1¹	5.2¹	5.3.8	5.4	5.5	5.6.3	5.7.3	5.8.7 (current)
Component Reference:	5.0¹	5.1¹	5.2¹	see 5.7.2	see 5.7.2	see 5.7.2	see 5.7.2	5.7.3	5.8.7
Release Notes:	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.3.8	5.4	5.5	5.6	5.7.0	5.8.7

¹ needs to be built manually from archived sources at http://archive.apache.org/dist/tapestry/.

User Guide

The User Guide consists of over 75 pages of detailed information on the concepts behind Tapestry and instructions on how to use this powerful tool. Highlights include:

Client-Side JavaScript and Ajax and Zones describe Tapestry's built-in support for dynamic in-page behavior.
Integrating with Spring Framework describes how to integrate Spring into your Tapestry application.
Tapestry/Hibernate Integration Library provides out-of-the-box support for using Hibernate 3.
JSR 303: Bean Validation shows how to use standard annotations for validation
Integration Testing shows how to test your application with Selenium.

Blogs by Tapestry Developers and the Community

Tapestry Central was Howard Lewis Ship's blog from 2003-2013. As the creator of Tapestry, he provides valuable insights into Tapestry's latest features and future directions.
Igor Drobiazko's blog (committer & PMC) contains guides on Tapestry 5 development (2009-2013).
Java Magic (by Taha Hafeez, committer) presents a series of tutorials illustrating some of the more advanced Tapestry and Plastic features and techniques (2011-2012).

Books on Tapestry

There are at least 9 published books on Tapestry, including three on Tapestry 5.

Tapestry Presentations

Mark Shead's 10 Minute Demo (Video, 2011)
H. L. Ship's Tapestry 5.4 - Bootstrap-enhanced Exception Reporting (Video, 2012)
JavaServer Faces 2.0 vs. Tapestry 5 (PDF, 2010) A Head-to-Head Comparison by Igor Drobiazko at Jazoon 2010

Tapestry Wikis

Documentation Source wiki (Confluence) – the wiki used as the content editor for the official Tapestry documentation
Tapestry Community Wiki (legacy) – read-only copy of Tapestry's old Moin Moin wiki containing a lot of user-generated information on different Tapestry use cases.

Getting help

The primary method of support is the Tapestry Mailing Lists.

In addition, there are occasionally questions and answers about Tapestry at Stack Overflow.

The Developer Corner

Developer Information gives information needed by the Tapestry developers