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Here's a minimal component that outputs a fixed message, using a template with a matching file name:

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In this example, just like the first one, the component's only job is to write out a fixed message. The @BeginRender annotation is a type of render phase annotation

, a method annotation that instructs Tapestry when and under what circumstances to invoke methods of your class.

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Warning

Only component classes should go in any of these controlled packages; classes representing data, or interfaces, or anything that isn't precisely a component class, must go elsewhere. Any top-level class in any of the controlled packages will be transformed at runtime. The only exception is inner classes
(anonymous or not), which are loaded by the same class loader as the component class loader, but not transformed as components.

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Tapestry performs some simple optimizations of the logical page name (or component type, or mixin type). It checks to see if the package name is either a prefix or a suffix of the unqualified class name (case insensitively, of course) and removes the prefix or suffix if so. The net result is that a class name such as com.example.myapp.pages.user.EditUser will have a page name of user/Edit (not instead of user/EditUser). The goal here is to provide shorter, more natural URLs.

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One special simplification are exists for Index pages: if the logical page name is Index after removing the package name from the unqualified class name, it will map to the root of that folder. A class such as com.example.myapp.pages.user.IndexUser or com.example.myapp.pages.user.UserIndex will have a page name of user/.

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The distinction between pages and component is very, very small. The only real primary difference is the package name: root.pages.PageName for pages, and root.components.ComponentType for components. Conceptually, page components are simply the root component of a page's component tree.

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For the most part, these transformations are both sensible and invisible. In a few limited cases, they are marginally leakycomprise a marginally leaky abstraction – for instance, the scope restrictions on instance variables described below – but we feel that the programming model in general will support supports a very high levels level of developer productivity.

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Since release 5.3.2, instance variables may be protected, or package private (that is, no access modifier). Under specific circumstances they may even be public (public fields must either be final, or have the @Retain annotation).

Be aware that you will need to either provide getter and setter methods to access your classes' instance variables. Tapestry does not do this automatically unless you provide the @Property annotation on the field, or else annotate the fields with @Property.

Transient Instance Variables

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Deprecated
since5.2
For Tapestry 5.1 and earlier, in the rare event that you have a variable that can keep its value between requests and you would like to defeat that reset logic, then you can add a @[Retain|http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Retain.html] a @Retain annotation to the field. You should take care that no client-specific data is stored into such a field, since on a later request the same page _instance_ may be used for a different user. Likewise, on a later request for the _same_ client, a _different_ page instance may be used.

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Technically, the start and end parameters should be bound to properties, just like the the value parameter. However, certain literal values, such as the numeric literals in the example, are accepted by the prop: binding prefix even though they are not actually properties (this is largely as a convenience to the application developer). We could also use the literal: prefix, "start=literal:5", which accomplishes largely the same thing.

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If you define a component in the component class, and there is no corresponding element in the template, Tapestry will log an error. In the example above that would be the case if the template for the Countdown page didn't contain an element with <t:count t:id="count">.

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