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See it live !

You can play with Tapestry via our live demonstration applications. To start you can have a look at the Hotel Booking that has been developed by contributors and committers. The whole source code is available at github so you can download and play with it.

Create your first Tapestry project

The easiest way to get started is to use Apache Maven to create your initial project; Maven can use an archetype (a kind of project template) to create a bare-bones Tapestry application for you.

One you have Maven installed, execute the command 

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://tapestry.apache.org

Maven will (after performing a large number of one-time downloads) ask you questions about how to create the new project, including a group id (like a package name) and an artifact id for your new project.

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://tapestry.apache.org
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO] task-segment: [archetype:generate] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing archetype:generate
[INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
[INFO] [archetype:generate {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1: http://tapestry.apache.org -> quickstart (Tapestry 5.2.1-SNAPSHOT Quickstart Project)
2: http://tapestry.apache.org -> tapestry-archetype (Tapestry 4.1.6 Archetype)
Choose a number: : 1
Choose version:
1: 5.0.19
2: 5.1.0.5
3: 5.2.0
4: 5.2.1-SNAPSHOT
Choose a number: : 3
Define value for property 'groupId': : com.example
Define value for property 'artifactId': : newapp
Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT:
Define value for property 'package': com.example: com.example.newapp
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: com.example
artifactId: newapp
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: com.example.newapp
Y:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 25 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 17 14:01:50 PDT 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/tmp
$

Once it is created, you can load it into any IDE and start coding, or use mvn jetty:run 1 . Again, more one-time downloads, but then you can open your browser to http://localhost:8080 to run the application.

For more information on this, try the Tapestry Tutorial which goes into more detail about setting up your project, as well as loading it into Eclipse ... then continues on to teach you more about Tapestry.

More

Learn more about Tapestry Philosophy and then checkout our full Documentation page on which you will find a lot of resources written by committers and contributors.

Obtain Help

Tapestry has an active user mailing list on which you can find a lot of valuable support. You can subscribe users-subscribe@tapestry.apache.org or look for an answer in the archives

Having trouble? Try our Frequently Asked Questions.

  1. Jetty is a well-known, open-source, high-performance servlet container. Jetty starts up quickly, and implements the official Servlet specification very closely. ↩

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