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*We think you will love Tapestry\!* Give us 20 minutes and *[follow our quickstart guide|Getting Started]*.
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h2. What is Apache Tapestry?

| h4. Pure Java and polyglot
Written in Java, suitable for Java applications, you can use Groovy or Scala instead too \! | h4. Convention over configuration
Say goodbye to endless XML configuration files. |
| h4. Highly productive
Live class reloading means that the time between seeing an error and providing the fix is seconds, not minutes. | h4. Advanced Exception reporting
It gives you all the tools you need to fix your problem: not just a  stack trace, but every bit of information you need to know about what  was doing, why it was doing it, what went wrong, and how to fix it. |
| h4. Fast
Without Java reflection use is built to cleanly support large numbers of  concurrent threads. Includes GZip content compression, JavaScript  aggregation, and far future expires headers.. | h4. Testable\\  \\
Built for testability provides nice testing functionalities enchanting TDD techniques. [See Tapestry covertura repo|http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/tapestry-core/cobertura/index.html] |
| h4. Scalable Scales up big on a single server, and offers great options into a   cluster. Ready for REST, it is suitable for the most staless or stateful   applications. | | | |
h4. Scalable Scales up big on a single server, and offers great options  into a   cluster. Ready for REST, it is suitable for the most staless or  stateful   applications. |
| h4. Adaptable
Architecture is open and extensible. There's a clean way to add your    own logic, or substitute some logic with your own. Provides  integration   with [Hibernate|http://hibernate.org/] and [Spring|http://www.springsource.org/]. Third-party integrations with other tools, such as [Quartz|http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/]. | |


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