http://tapestrysupport.comenNews about professional support for the Tapestry web application framework.http://tapestrysupport.com/news_nov_2007.html#2007-11-18 Logical Software, of Portugal, has joins the Tapestry Support Network. Details on the members page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_may_2007.html#2007-05-17 Integrallis Software has joined the Tapestry Support Network. Details on the members page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_feb_2007.html#2007-02-15 Tapestry Support Network member Formos have donated hardware and bandwith to support the Tapestry project, starting with an installation of Bamboo Continuous Integration Server. Continuous integration is one key indicator of a healthy project, and Bamboo provides a convenient way for the Tapestry developer and user community to monitor the progress of Tapestry development. The license for Bamboo was generously donated by Atlassian Software. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_nov_2006.html#2006-11-15 DATACODE, based in Modena, Italy, are now part of the Tapestry Support Network. Details on the members page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_nov_2006.html#2006-11-02 Formos, a consulting company based in Vancouver, WA, are now part of the Tapestry Support Network. Details on the members page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_sep_2006.html#2006-09-26 EU Edge, long term Tapestry supporters (and creators of the Tacos Ajax component library) are now part of the Tapestry Support Network. Details on the members page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_aug_2006.html#2006-08-04 Nemesis IT, Tapestry supporters since 2003, has joined the network. Details on the Tapestry Support Network member page. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jun_2006.html#2006-05-22 The Tapestry project has been promoted from a sub-project of Jakarta to a top-level Apache project (a "TLP"). The new home page is http://tapestry.apache.org/. With this promotion to TLP, Tapestry will be able to organize itself into separate, related sub-projects, each on their own release schedule. This will make it easier to introduce improvements to portions of Tapestry without having to wait for a major release cycle. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_may_2006.html#2006-05-16 Tapestry has been awarded the 2006 Duke's Choice award for innovation, in the open source category. Winners of the Duke's Choice are judged by James Gosling, the creator of the Java platform. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jan_2006.html#2006-01-07 After nearly two years of work, the final release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_nov_2005.html#2005-11-12 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This major fixes in this release concern client-side JavaScript for a number of components. In addition, the request cycle object is now an injectable service, and a number of APIs have changed as a result. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_oct_2005.html#2005-10-31 The latest (approximately) weekly beta release for Tapestry 4.0 contains a number of important bug fixes, including extensive changes to support switching schemes ("http" vs. "https") on links and forms. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_oct_2005.html#2005-10-26 The final 1.1 release of the HiveMind services and configuration microkernel has been released. HiveMind is an inversion-of-control container that mixes in a powerful approach to modularization and configuration. It is ideally suited for building richly extensible frameworks. Tapestry 4.0 is built on HiveMind. HiveMind overlaps in functionality with the very popular Spring framework, but offers a significant number of its own wrinkles ... and integrates very cleanly with Spring. Release 1.1 offers a significant number of improvements over 1.0. A few highlights: Services and configurations may now be private to a module, and not directly accessible from other modules. Lightweight initialization allows properties of an object instance to be configured without having to make the object a full-fledged service. The locale is now tracked on a per-thread basis, and may be changed at any time. Services may now be defined in terms of a Java class, not a Java interface. Groovy may be used, instead of XML, to define services and configurations. Modules may define a package; class names appearing in the XML may omit that package. Streamlined XML with much smarter defaults for many attributes. Support for AOP Alliance style method interception. Services may now be exposed via JMX for remote control, and to monitor performance. Much improved auto-wiring of services implementations, including automatic dependency injection via constructor parameters. Support for building services around the Gang Of Four Strategy and Chain of Command patterns. Configurations data may now be injected as a Map rather than a List, by defining the attribute used as a key. Conditional contribution, controlled by the presence (or absence) of classes, or JVM system properties. Service proxies may now be serialized and deserialized. HiveDoc has been improved, both in content and in presentation. Full details are available in the change log. Download HiveMind http://tapestrysupport.com/news_oct_2005.html#2005-10-17 The latest weekly beta release for Tapestry 4.0 adds more documentation and debuts a completely renovated Virtual Library demonstration J2EE application, which makes use of all the latest and greatest 4.0 features, including annotations, friendly URLs, and multiple folders. In addition, a class loader bug related to client-side persistent properties was fixed. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_oct_2005.html#2005-10-09 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-9 release. In addition, a default implementation of IPrimaryKeyConverter, used in conjuction with the For component, was added. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. Tapestry 4.0 is getting very close to a final release. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_oct_2005.html#2005-10-02 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-8 release. This release reorganizes the documentation navigation, provides a working version of the Virtual Library J2EE demonstration application (ported from Tapestry 3.0), as well as a number of minor fixes and improvements. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. Tapestry 4.0 is getting very close to a final release. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_sep_2005.html#2005-09-25 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-7 release. This release adds more documentation, and fixes a number of important bugs related to localization, client-side input validation, and code generation. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_sep_2005.html#2005-09-19 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-6 release. This release continues to fill in missing component documentation, and improved error reporting in a number of areas. Further, component types may now include slashes (to allow organizing them into folders, in the same way that pages can be organized). Class names of managed beans may now be abbreviated, much like the way page and component class names may be abbreviated. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_sep_2005.html#2005-09-07 The latest beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-5 release. This release fixes a number of bugs with client-side input validation and user input focus. The LinkSubmit component and the Inspector subsystem were overhauled. As importantly, many gaps in the component reference documentation have been filled. Finally, a number of minor changes were made to move Tapestry towards general XHTML compliance. A full listing of bug fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_aug_2005.html#2005-08-29 The fifth beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-4 release. Many of the fixes in this release were improvements to client-side JavaScript, including client-side input validation. The way Tapestry forms client-side element ids is now XHTML conformant (no use of the dollar sign, no leading underscores). The Form component has a new listener parameter, success, that is only invoked when validation is successful. A full listing of bugs fixed is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_aug_2005.html#2005-08-23 The latest release of the HiveMind services and configuration microkernel progresses towards a final 1.1 release. A few minor bugs were fixed, and the build environment was improved. More importantly, there have been significant improvements to the documentation, care of newest committer Achim Hugen. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_aug_2005.html#2005-08-11 The fourth beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-3 release. Key areas covered are fixes for minor client-side validation problems, fixes for several bytecode enhancement issues (including one that prevent transient page properties from being cleared), and adding of many different localizations of the messages used for form input vield validation. In addition, the default binding concept was removed from Tapestry 4.0. A full listing of bugs fixes is available in the change log. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jul_2005.html#2005-07-26 The Tapestry Support Network launched today, with the following press release: Open Source Developers Create Support Community for Emerging Java-based Web Application Framework "Tapestry" Tapestry 4.0 Beta Now Available Quincy, Mass. – July 26, 2005 – Open source Java development efforts were boosted today with news of a new support network for Tapestry, an Apache Jakarta project. Howard M. Lewis Ship, the creator and lead developer for Tapestry and HiveMind, announced today the creation of the Tapestry Support Network (TSN). TSN is a consortium of software developers and consultants that have organized to provide tier-one support, development and training services for Tapestry. A list of TSN founding members, including contact information, is available at www.tapestrysupport.com/members.html. Tapestry is an emerging open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. Tapestry complements and builds upon the standard Java Servlet API, and so it works in any servlet container or application server. In conjunction with the launch of the Tapestry Support Network, the Tapestry 4.0 Beta is now available for download. Tapestry 4.0 offers an array of new and advanced features for Tapestry developers – a full list and additional information is available on the Tapestry project site at jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/. Tapestry has been rapidly gaining acceptance in the J2EE software development community, and the Tapestry Support Network was formed to serve the needs of this growing group of developers. Hundreds of public web sites and intranet sites worldwide have been built using the Tapestry framework, and more are underway. TheServerSide.com and TheServerSide.net are two of the largest, serving millions of visitors each month. Several of the top 20 business schools in the country are running an admissions application powered by Tapestry. A powerful alternative to traditional scripting environments, Tapestry provides a complete framework for creating extremely dynamic applications with minimal amounts of coding. Tapestry embodies the software development mantra of "reuse" and provides a powerful object-oriented MVC-based web development framework that is excellent for large, enterprise-class applications. Tapestry components are a combination of an XML specification file, an HTML template and a Java class. Tapestry components are combined together to form larger components or complete Tapestry pages. "Before Tapestry, web development was nothing short of agonizing," said Tapestry developer James Strong. "You threw all of that object-oriented skill you've been honing for 10 years out of the window. With Tapestry, everything's an object again. You can easily create complex reusable components and accomplish things just not possible with other frameworks." Tapestry is unlike most other frameworks in that it doesn't use code generation; instead it uses a true component object model based on JavaBeans properties and strong specifications. Tapestry applications require far less Java coding and are far more robust than equivalent applications developed with other popular frameworks. It also was one of the first Java-based web development frameworks to offer line-precise error reporting, giving developers a wealth of information when unexpected code exceptions occur. For additional information on Tapestry, visit jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/. Tapestry is part of the Apache Jakarta Project, which sponsors and hosts several open source Java development efforts. "Tapestry represents five years of development down a path validated by Sun's JavaServer Faces initiative," said Tapestry lead developer Ship. "It is a mature, stable, fast and highly efficient platform for web development, and it is 100 percent open source." The first beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available, offering an array of new and advanced features for Tapestry developers. Downloads and a full list of new features are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/. A complete, current list of TSN members is available online at http://tapestrysupport.com/members.html. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jul_2005.html#2005-07-25 The third beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-2 release, and includes important fixes related to application state objects, client-side input field focus, and OGNL class loader problems. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jul_2005.html#2005-07-10 A new beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Release 4.0-beta-2 is purely a bug fix release, building on the beta-1 release, and is largely focused on resolving problems with annotations and client-side JavaScript. http://tapestrysupport.com/news_jun_2005.html#2005-06-25 The first beta release of Tapestry 4.0 has been released. Detailed release notes are on the Jakarta web site.