Boy, those are some big questions you are asking. I've been the guy answering newbie questions around here for the last couple of days and even I am going to send you over to the docs, at least initially. I'm happy to answer questions, but those are just too big to answer without knowing more about you and your project. I recommend you take a look at the documentation on the tapestry website. Here's the Tap 4.0.x website, which is the latest production ready version of Tapestry. http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4/ However, many folks are using Tapestry 4.1.x, which is a big improvement in usability and native ajax support, but still just a little unstable in the sense that the codebase changes frequently, not that the code you download is going to be particularly crash or error prone. but if you want to stay up to date over time, you'll likely find yourself having to make changes to your application to support changes to the framework if you you use 4.1. Depending upon your requirements on the stability front, 4.1 may well be your better bet. The tap 4.1 website is here: http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4.1/
You can get integration with dojo from either version, although in 4.0, you'll need a library (known as tacos) to get maximum dojo functionality. Tap 4.1 takes the best from the tacos library and integrates it directly into tapestry and improves upon it. Here's the Tapestry quickstart. I never used it as a begineer, so I can't say how effective it is: http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4/QuickStart/index.html I have no idea if it was updated for 4.1, but the url is different, so here you go: http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4.1/quickstart/helloworld.html For far greater detail, I recommend you work through the first 4 chapters (available free) of Kent Tog's "Enjoy Web Development with Tapestry." http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDT/ It won't be entirely up to date with Tap 4.1, but the changes aren't that great and the book is well constructed for beginners, although it does spend maybe a bit too much showing you sub-optimal solutions on the way to finally showing you how it should actually be done, in order to introduce as much material as possible. Useful, but a bit frustrating. There is a project that is trying to provide similar/equivalent functionality to RoR called Trails. You can find a link under "Related Projects" in the sidebar on the website. I have no experience with it. There are other related projects that provide prepackaged integration with hibernate, acegi, and other packages. Again, I have no experience, but you should find links on the site. I also recommend you take a look at the tapestry wiki. Links are on the site. Finally, there are a number of demonstration projects available. you'll find links in either the website or the wiki. Probably the most frequently sited reference application is the TapestryTables.war application. Google it for fastest access. It is a tutorial that shows how to use Tapestry's very powerful table functionality. Just drop it in your container and check it out. The application IS the tutorial. Geoff Callendar recently posted an update to his Tapestry jumpstart application. I don't know if it is a tutorial, empty application starter, or a combination of both. I just happened to spot his email to the list. Check it out at http://files.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart About webservices: Generally you wouldn't use a development framework like tapestry to build a web service, since tap is all about making something useful to a human rather than another computer. For webservices, you want to look at xfire or axis. I haven't used xfire, but it looks like a far superior (or at last simpler) api for implementing a web service compared to apache axis. And to summarize: Tap actually has pretty thorough documentation available, but it is fairly scattered and requires a certain amount of browsing and searching to discover where it all is. Between the wiki and the website, I bet you can find a link to every item I've mentioned here, so I'd start with those two sources. Enjoy. --sam On 12/8/06, Noel Guilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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