Since i don't have access to my confluence account at the moment, can someone update the snapshot repo url to http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/ instead of the one at formos.com
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 22:40, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Introduction<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Introduction> > Page > *edited* by Bob Harner<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/~bobharner> > *Comment:* updated versions > > Changes (4) > ... > h2. Roadmap > > The 5.1 release is out and available now, work is finished on the imminent > 5.2 release, and developers are beginning to focus on 5.3. > Version 5.2 has reached General Availability (stable) status, and > developers are working on features for a 5.3 snapshot. > > The goal is to produce such releases on a regular schedule, every 4 - 6 > months. > > High priorities for upcoming releases include Spring Web Flow integration, > support for developing Tapestry applications as Portlets, a Javascript > abstraction layer, removal of Javassist, IoC improvements, more add-on > libraries and components, and improvements to documentation. > ... > The use of Maven has let us move with great speed, providing preview > releases and snapshots. > > Snapshots are intermediate versions of releases. As of this writing, the > most recent preview release is 5.0.2 5.2.4 and the current snapshots are > for 5.0.3-SNAPSHOT. 5.3.0-SNAPSHOT. Maven keys off the -SNAPSHOT suffix > and handles the dependency specially. It knows that snapshot releases can > change frequently, so it will keep checking (at least once a day, maybe more > often) to see if there's an updated version of the snapshot. > > A nightly build process on Tapestry's continuous integration server creates > new snapshots every night. > ... > Full Content > Related Articles Getting > Started<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Getting+Started> > Introduction<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Introduction> > Principles<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Principles> > Tapestry > Tutorial<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Tapestry+Tutorial> > What is Apache Tapestry? > > Apache Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, > highly scalable web applications in Java. Tapestry complements and builds > upon the standard Java Servlet API, and so it works in any servlet container > or application server. > > Tapestry divides a web application into a set of pages, each constructed > from components. This provides a consistent structure, allowing the Tapestry > framework to assume responsibility for key concerns such as URL construction > and dispatch, persistent state storage on the client or on the server, user > input validation, localization/internationalization, and exception > reporting. Developing Tapestry applications involves creating HTML templates > using plain HTML, and adding a small java class for each. In Tapestry, you > create your application in terms of objects, and the methods and properties > of those objects – and specifically not in terms of URLs and query > parameters. Tapestry brings true object oriented development to Java web > applications. > > Tapestry is specifically designed to make creating new components very > easy, as this is a routine approach when building applications. > > Tapestry is architected to scale from tiny, single-page applications all > the way up to massive applications consisting of hundreds of individual > pages, developed by large, diverse teams. Tapestry easily integrates with > any kind of backend, including JEE, Spring and Hibernate. > > It's more than what you can do with Tapestry ... it's also how you do it! > Tapestry is a vastly productive environment. Java developers love it because > they can make Java code changes and see them immediately ... no redeploy, no > restart! And it's blazingly fast to boot (even when files change). Designers > love it because Tapestry templates are so close to ordinary HTML, without > all the cruft and confusion seen in JavaServer Pages. Managers love it > because it makes it easy for large teams to work together, and because they > know important features (including localization) are baked right in. Once > you work in Tapestry there's no going back! > > Tapestry is released under the Apache Software Licence 2.0. > New And Of Note > > Main Article: Release > Notes<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Release+Notes> > > - Tapestry now uses the Blackbird JavaScript console. > - Tapestry now automatically combines multiple JavaScript libraries > into a single request. > - An Ajax event request may now return a MultiZoneUpdate instance to > update multiple zones in the client web browser. > - Client-side numeric validation is now locale-sensitive. > - Some significant performance improvements over Tapestry 5.0.18: the > time to initially load a page, and the time to render a page have > decreased. > - Tapestry IoC services can now be easily advised as well as decorated > (both of these refer to Aspect Oriented Techniques applied to Tapestry IoC > services). > - Tapestry Services can now be injected into Spring Beans, when using > the Tapestry/Spring integration library. > - Tapestry now compresses responses for clients that support GZIP > compression. Context and classpath assets are now handled uniformly: > versioned URLs, far-future expiration headers, and GZIP compression where > applicable. > - Ordered and mapped configurations can now have overrides. > - Property expressions have been improved: You can now invoke methods > with parameters, or create a list (very useful for link contexts). > - IoC Service contributions may now be made in terms of classes (that > are automatically instantiated) as well as instances. > - A simpler method of overriding built-in services has been added. > > Roadmap > > Version 5.2 has reached General Availability (stable) status, and > developers are working on features for a 5.3 snapshot. > > The goal is to produce releases on a regular schedule, every 4 - 6 months. > > High priorities for upcoming releases include Spring Web Flow integration, > support for developing Tapestry applications as Portlets, a Javascript > abstraction layer, removal of Javassist, IoC improvements, more add-on > libraries and components, and improvements to documentation. > Third Party Libraries, Tutorials and Resources > > A number of third party libraries, tutorials and resources are listed on > the Tapestry Home page. > About Snapshots and Releases > > Tapestry is built using Maven, which makes it really easy to download the > source and build it yourself, either the whole project, or just one single > module. > > Better yet, you can pull down Tapestry modules from the central Maven > repository. > > The use of Maven has let us move with great speed, providing preview > releases and snapshots. > > Snapshots are intermediate versions of releases. As of this writing, the > most recent release is 5.2.4 and the current snapshots are for > 5.3.0-SNAPSHOT. Maven keys off the -SNAPSHOT suffix and handles the > dependency specially. It knows that snapshot releases can change frequently, > so it will keep checking (at least once a day, maybe more often) to see if > there's an updated version of the snapshot. > > A nightly build process on Tapestry's continuous integration server creates > new snapshots every night. > > Snapshots don't go in the central Maven repository (that's reserved for > full releases). Instead, they go into the Tapestry snapshots repository at > http://tapestry.formos.com/maven-snapshot-repository. > > To access this repository, you may add -DremoteRepositories= > http://tapestry.formos.com/maven-snapshot-repository to the command line > when running Maven. > > Your best bet is to use the quickstart Maven archetype to create your > initial Tapestry project; it generates a full project directory, including a > POM that links to the Apache snapshots repository. > > Documentation on this site usually refers to the latest snapshot ... that > is, it is usually ahead of the last official release. In some cases, it is > written as if the snapshot release is stable; if documentation refers to > version 5.1.x.x and that doesn't work, try 5.1.x.x-SNAPSHOT. > Change Notification > Preferences<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/users/viewnotifications.action> > View > Online<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAPESTRY/Introduction>| > View > Changes<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=23333653&revisedVersion=6&originalVersion=5> > -- Andreas Andreou - [email protected] - http://blog.andyhot.gr Tapestry PMC / Tacos developer Open Source / JEE Consulting
