| If you'd like to create web-based applications easily, then this book is for you. More importantly, it shows you how to
do that with joy and feel good about your own work! You don't need to know servlet or JSP while your productivity
will be much higher than using servlet or JSP directly. This is possible because we're going to use a library called
"Tapestry" that makes complicated stuff simple and elegant.
How does it do that? First, it allows the web designer to work on the static contents and design of a page while
allowing the developer to work on the dynamic contents of that page without stepping on each other's toes;
Second, it allows developers to work with high level concepts such as objects and properties instead of HTTP
URLs, query parameters or HTML string values; Third, it comes with powerful components such as calendar, tree
and data grid and it allows you to create your own components for reuse in your own project.
However, don't take our words for it! This book will quickly walk you through real world use cases to show you how
to use Tapestry and leave it up to you to judge. It is best said by Geoff Longman, a Tapestry expert and the creator
of a famous Eclipse plugin for Tapestry, "this is material designed to get your feet dirty *right away* and not really
intended to debate whether Tapestry is right, wrong, the best, or the worst framework for you, me, or my brother." |
