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Tapestry has an active community of users and developers. This is an overview of some of the great contributions of the community members.
Modules
Chenille Kit by Massimo Lusetti
Collection of modules, services, utilities and components (many of which require only tapestry-ioc). Includes Accordion, ColorPicker, Editor, Kaptcha, MultipleSelect, RoundCornerContainer, ThumbNail, and many more useful components. Also provides integrations with Google services, LDAP, Lucene, Mail, Quartz, JasperReports, Bean Scripting Framework, and more.
Equanda-tapestry5 by Joachim Van der Auwera
Components useful for building enterprise applications. Includes Accordion, Form Traversal, Tabs, TextAreaAutoExpander, TreeTable, . Among other things, these focus on easy input of data without the need for a mouse.
ioko-tapestry-commons by Ben Gidley, et al.
Provides components for caching, cache control, and simple Flash movie integration.
Tapx by Howard M. Lewis Ship
Collection of modules and components: improved DatePicker, dynamic Tapestry templates, offline rendering using Tapestry, YUI integration, Confirm dialog mixin, Kaptcha components, and more!
tacos-seam by Igor Drobiazko
Integrates with JBoss Seam to manage conversational state
More Modules...
Extensions
Ars Machina by Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Tapestry/Hibernate extensions for Generic DAOs, standard CRUD interfaces, and user access logging and tracking.
Tynamo project by Tynamo Team / Kalle Korhonen & Alejandro Scandroli
Tynamo is model-driven, full-stack web framework based on Tapestry 5, allowing you to jump directly from your Hibernate entities to a full-blown CRUD application. Tynamo provides several modules, including tapestry-model, tapestry-conversations, tapestry-hibernate-seedentity, tapestry-resteasy and tapestry-security.
Tutorials
Tapestry JumpStart by Geoff Callender
JumpStart is an easy way to learn Tapestry by example, and it's free! It's an instant, working application, ready for you to explore and modify. It's built entirely on open-source items. You are welcome to use any part of JumpStart for your own applications.
Shams Examples by Mohammad H. Shamsi
A variety of examples of Tapestry 5 pages and components.
Community's Wiki (Moin Moin)
The wiki contains a wealth of user-generated tips and techniques for using Tapestry
IDE Integrations
loom-t5 by Chris Scheid
Eclipse plugin for building Tapestry 5 projects
IntelliJ 10 by Jet Brains
IntelliJ has Tapestry 5 support included right out of the box.
How to use the built in JSP Eclipse Editor and a custom tld file to get Tapestry 5 code completion in Eclipse
Getting Involved
Reporting Problems / Getting Support
Like all Apache projects, Tapestry uses mailing lists for most communication. You can subscribe by sending e-mail to the addresses below. For each list, there are subscribe, unsubscribe, and archive links. All Tapestry users are welcome to subscribe to any of these lists, however questions on how to use Tapestry in your application are best sent to the user mailing list.
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Tapestry issues are tracked in the Apache JIRA.
Unless your problem is clear as day, it's a good idea to discuss it on the Tapestry Users mailing list first, before adding an issue. At the same time, it's generally unlikely that a bug will be fixed unless a JIRA Issue is created.
Eric Raymond has a detailed guide to asking questions the right way. If you are not getting a response to your problem, it's likely because you aren't asking it the right way.
Just saying something is "broken" or "failed" is not enough. How did it fail? Did it do the wrong thing? Throw an exception? Not respond in any way? What exactly did you expect to happen? All of this information should be made available when looking for help, plus context on the general problem you were trying to solve in the first place (there may be a better solution entirely). Read Eric Raymond's guide ... it's fun and informative.
Source Code Access
Source code for Tapestry can be downloaded along with pre-compiled binaries.
Tapestry uses Subversion to manage the project's source code.
Web access to the Tapestry repository is available as http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tapestry/tapestry5/trunk.
Access using Subversion client:
$ svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tapestry/tapestry5/trunk tapestry-project
There's also some notes on using Git to access Tapestry.
Becoming a Contributor
The best way to become a contributor is to become active on the mailing list; Tapestry is known to have an active and helpful community on the mailing list, and the more mentors we can add, the better.
If you want to help out with documentation, you must sign an Apache Contributor License Agreement, at which point we can grant write access to the Confluence Wiki (where official documentation is created).
Providing patches (with tests!) is another way to become a contributor.
Becoming a Committer
Active contributors may be asked to become full committers, with write access to the source code. Generally, contributors who have been consistently active and helpful for three to six months are eligible for committer access. If you think you are in that category, don't be shy about contacting members of the Tapestry PMC (Project Management Committee).