Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications (Paperback)
Product Details
- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 15, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847193072
- ISBN-13: 978-1847193070
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial for those who want to build contemporary, real-life web applications with Tapestry 5, the Apache open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. It shows the path of least resistance, so that the reader can learn all the essential skills quickly and easily. To give the reader an initial practical experience, a simple but useful web application is built throughout the chapters.
This book is an ideal introduction to Tapestry 5. It works equally well for new users and people who have experience in an older version of Tapestry and want to start using version 5.
The first part of the book concentrates on getting your environment setup in either Eclipse or Netbeans. This is extremely well done and goes a long ways toward making sure you aren’t doing something the hard way.
The book takes you through creating a simple web application. The author did a great job of showing the power of the framework without bogging you down in unnecessary details. The example application is simple enough that you don’t mind just typing it in yourself as you work through the book, but chosen with enough care to make sure you cover all the important parts of the framework. I have rarely read a technical book that covered so much content so effortlessly.
If you understand Java and have basic knowledge of web applications, this book gives you what you need to start developing using Tapestry. Personally the 10 hours I spent working through the book probably saved me over 100 hours of trying to figure things out on my own.