Tapestry 5 -- Table of Contents -- Tapestry 5 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- Who is This Book for -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction to Tapestry -- Why is Tapestry Special? -- Tapestry HTML Templates are Free from Obtrusive Instrumentation -- Custom Components are Very Easy to Create -- AJAX and DHTML, but No JavaScript Coding -- User Input Validation Works Like Magic -- Built-In Internationalization Support -- Inversion of Control Made Easy -- Is Tapestry the Savior in the World of Java Web Development? -- The Journey of Tapestry from 3 to 5 -- Summary -- 2. Creating Your Working Environment -- Install a JDK -- Configuring the Environment for Windows -- Configuring environment for Mac OS X -- Install Maven -- Create a Skeleton Tapestry project -- Install NetBeans -- Debugging in NetBeans -- Installing Eclipse -- Installing Tomcat -- Configuring the Project in Eclipse -- Debugging in Eclipse -- Summary -- 3. The Foundations of Tapestry -- Tapestry Application is a Set of Interactive Pages -- Page Template and Page Class -- Using Expansions -- Using Components -- Passing a Value Between Pages -- What Can be Returned From an Event Handler -- Tapestry Pages are Pooled -- Making a Page Field Persistent -- Using Page Activation Context -- Different Ways of Defining Components -- Structuring the Application -- Creating and Using an Application State Object -- Was an ASO Already Instantiated? -- Summary -- 4. Simple Components -- Celebrity Collector Project -- The Auxiliary Classes -- TextField, PasswordField and PageLink -- Limiting Access to a Page -- Loop, Output and DirectLink -- Another Use of PageLink Component -- Radio and RadioGroup.

Using Enumerations for Radio Component Values -- Prefixes: prop and literal -- The If and Checkbox Components -- Submit Component -- More Than One Submit Button -- Select Component -- Configuring an Application State Object -- Summary -- 5. Advanced Components -- Grid Component -- Tweaking the Grid -- Changing the Column Titles -- Using GridDataSource -- BeanEditForm Component -- Tweaking BeanEditForm -- DateField Component -- Changing the Styles of Grid and BeanEditForm -- FCKEditor Component -- Summary -- 6. User Input Validation -- Adding Validation to Components -- Validators -- Providing Custom Error Messages -- Handling Validation-Related Form Events -- Cross-Form Validation -- BeanEditForm Validation -- Summary -- 7. Internationalization and Localization -- Internationalization on the Java Platform -- Internationalization in Tapestry -- Creating and Using Message Catalogs -- Providing a German Message Catalog -- Switching Locale -- Internationalization of Images -- Using Localized Templates -- Other Examples of Internationalization -- Summary -- 8. Creating Custom Components -- How to Create a Tapestry 5 Component -- Creating the Border Component -- Adding a Navigation Menu -- Using a Parameter -- Unleashing the Power of Select Component -- Creating an OptionModel -- Creating a SelectModel -- Creating a ValueEncoder -- Selecting a Celebrity -- DateInput Component -- Making DateInput a Field -- Adding Simple Validation -- Creating a Universal Locale Switcher -- Creating a Custom Service -- Creating a Library of Custom Components -- Summary -- A. The Basics of Java for the Web -- The Standard Structure of a Java Web Application -- The Basics of the Deployment Descriptor -- WAR Files Basics -- About Java-Enabled Servers -- B. Creating a Real Data Source with db4o -- Preparing the Database -- The Main Operations -- The Final Strokes.

C. Where to Go Next -- Index.