I am a new Tapestry user and enjoying the time coding in it - but having a few problems.
*Summary of the Problem: *-------- Pages work fine. Custom Components, not so well. *Tools:* -------- Using Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.0 (1.6 compliance) with WTP and m2 MAVEN plugin Netbeans 6.1 and native MAVEN support Using Tomcat 6.0.16 Using JDK 1.6.0_06 Using Maven (m2 plugin with eclipse,native support in Netbeans, command line manually deploy as well). pom.xml in all cases includes the clause to package class files to a jar and include in the lib directory as described on the website for tomcat. This is not adhered to in the Eclipse WTP framework - so I tried it multiple ways. *Details of the Problem:* -------- 1. I can successfully get a simple build working great. I can create home.tml in the src/main/webapp directory and that automatically ties into the defined **.pages.Home.java class. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns:t="http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_0_0.xsd"; lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Home</title> </head> <body> <h1>Home</h1> <ul> <li><t:pageLink page="about">About</t:pageLink></li> <li><t:pageLink page="contact">Contact</t:pageLink></li> </ul> </body> </html> 2. I think create two other pages and their corresponding java classes (home.tml, about.tml, contact.tml). Both Eclipse WTP and Netbeans native deployments work with this. 3. Now the problem. I create **.components.Wrapper.java. I create src/main/resources/**/components/wrapper.tml. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns:t="http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_0_0.xsd"; lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Wrapper</title> </head> <body> <t:body/> </body> </html> and I alter contact.tml to use the new component: <t:wrapper xmlns:t="http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_0_0.xsd"; lang="en"> <h1>Contact</h1> <ul> <li><t:pageLink page="home">Home</t:pageLink></li> <li><t:pageLink page="about">About</t:pageLink></li> </ul> </t:wrapper> I create the appropriately packaged Wrapper.java (**.components). This package directly matches the package where the wrapper.tml file is located. The wrapper.tml is in the MAVEN src/main/resources while the Java class is physically in src/main/java. // $Id$ package website.web.components; public class Wrapper { } I run this and http://localhost:8080/home works great. Home's like to "about" works great: http://localhost:8080/about. But when I finally click on "contact" - I literally see this in the browser (view source): <ul><li><a href="home">Home</a></li><li><a href="about">About</a></li></ul> It is not correctly instantiating the component. Nothing about "wrapper" is getting used. I have this in Eclipse, Netbeans and even deployed directly tomcat manually from a MAVEN build: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> <optimize>true</optimize> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> And still - that component is just not getting picked up. If I change the name of the component class (Wrapper.java -> Trapper.java) then I correctly get a well written error saying: An unexpected application exception has occurred. Render queue error in BeginRender[Home:pagelink_0]: Unable to resolve 'wrapper' to a component class name. Available component types: ActionLink, AddRowLink, AjaxFormLoop, Any, BeanDisplay, BeanEditForm, BeanEditor, Checkbox, DateField, Delegate, Errors, EventLink, ExceptionDisplay, Form, FormFragment, FormInjector, Grid, GridCell, GridColumns, GridPager, GridRows, If, Label, Loop, Output, OutputRaw, PageLink, Palette, PasswordField, PropertyDisplay, PropertyEditor, Radio, RadioGroup, RemoveRowLink, RenderObject, Select, Submit, SubmitNotifier, TextArea, TextField, TextOutput, Trapper, Unless, Zone. If I rename the template file "wrapper.tml" to some other nonsense, the system doesn't seem to care. No exception or different behavior pops up. So - I think the problem is that the class cannot find or doesn't look for the template file. I guess this is consistent with the tomcat specific instructions provided on the tapestry5 website - but I did indeed confirm that both are present in the manual maven build - in the lib directy in an application JAR file and still no luck. Thoughts? Thanks in advance, -Luther I wouldn't mind helping out on this if I can. I loaded the source and trying to follow it - but at the moment - I'm a bit spun around. I really think Tapestry needs to support the Eclipse-WTP/tomcat build environment out of the box. I have to think that alot of folks are standardizing on that toolset for local development and debugging.
