Hi Josh, Recently one Tapestry committer - Christophe Cordenier -<http://spreadthesource.com/>[1] posted an announce to make people to join him to create some projects together in order to learn Tapestry. This initiative is helping to build Tapestry demos in order to make beginners life easier. Hotel-Booking-Demo [2] is an startup. Another demo is Tapestwitter [3], which is going to be modified to add new Tapestry 5.2 features and a new layout, with kind of components as you described you wish to learn. We will create more complex demos from this base. If you are motivated to learn and give Tapestry feedback, you could join the team.
Tapestry 5.2 adds new features, and some of them are described and very well explained on Igor's blog [4] You will find very good tutorials in Howard's blog [5], as for example how to understand what "Heartbeat" and "Environmental" means ... (honestly, this is not an easy part) Don't give up !!!! And do not blame tapestry neither because of maven, or because maven plugin doesn't work. As this is Tapestry, not Maven project ;) Katia [1] : http://spreadthesource.com/ [2] : http://github.com/ccordenier/tapestry5-hotel-booking [3] : http://github.com/lguerin/tapestwitter [4] : http://blog.tapestry5.de/ [5] : http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com/ 2010/11/6 Josh Kamau <joshnet2...@gmail.com> > Taha, > > I think i identify alot with you. I am already comfortable with wicket and > have done several projects. But i was feeling that i would be more > productive with tapestry. I even bought a book to learn from. This is my > second attempt to tapestry. I think a framework as good as tapestry and > with > so many nitty gritties to be learnt out to have an up to date USer guide > that gives the whole picture. > > regards. > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Taha Hafeez <tawus.tapes...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi Josh, > > > > To be frank enough, I gave up tapestry atleast 5 times and this time even > > the start was difficult... (Previous 4 times I went back to wicket, which > > is > > also a very good framework). But then it is so good that you keep coming > > back to it. > > > > This is what I will suggest > > > > 1. Follow Tutorial #1 > > http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/tutorial1/<http://Tutorial%20#1> > > > > 2. Try Jump Start: > http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au:8080/jumpstart/ > > > > 3. Try a small project of yours in tapestry and if you face any problems, > > you have this mailing list and believe me it is one of the best support I > > have seen in any mailing list. > > > > Taha > > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Josh Kamau <joshnet2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I give up. I cant get simple things to work and the scattered > > documentation > > > is not helping . I will wait till the year when there will be a > Tapestry5 > > > in > > > action book. > > > > > >
