April 2006

If you are interested in presenting to the Seattle Java User's group, please add an entry for your presentation and the month you would like to present on along with your name.

1. Apr 2006 Tapestry 4 presented by Konstantin Ignatyev

Bullets: (presentation slides can be found in the attached tapestry4.pdf file )

• “Unlearning curve” - lets forget about Page oriented programming, http request, response and other familiar things;
• Migrating from Struts to Tapestry – what is so different?
• Tapestry Components – how to create and use;
• Really clear separation of roles: designer do Site, developer fills it with functionality;

• Example of using DreamWeaver to maintain web application.

• Tapestry's Gotchas
• Integrating Tapestry with Ajax, Portlets etc;
• Tapestry and HiveMind
• Tapestry in real world: Live Tapestry Sites

RESOURCES

http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/30316 Rapid Java Web Application Development with Tapestry 4, a tutorial by John Ferguson Smart. http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDT Tutorials by Kent Tong. Updated for Tapestry 4. http://sanium.net/blog/2006/02/user-authentication-using-tapestry.html Beginner-level tutorial for user authentication for Tapestry 4 by Alex Curelea. http://www.sandcastsoftware.com/articlesandtutorials/brownbag/index.html try Warner Onstine's Brownbag Developer Series (these 2 have not been updated to 4.0, no plans to right now) http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbMay2004.html Introduction to Tapestry by Rob Smith http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/2004-12/TapestryPresentation.pdf Detailed presentation by Rob Smith http://www.dorffweb.com/index.htm?page=taptutorial Tapestry Tutorial (updated for 3.0) by Kevin C. Dorff http://myworkspace.sourceforge.net/Illustrating_Tapestry.html Illustrating Tapestry by Harish Krishnaswamy