Tomcat 7 deployment TapestryModule.RequestExceptionHandler Processing of request failed with uncaught exception: Component Index does not contain embedded component 'jsp'.

[Lance Java]

I think you've now hit this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-1729

Try commenting out the following in your pom.xml
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId>
            <artifactId>tapestry-yuicompressor</artifactId>
            <version>${tapestry-release-version}</version>
        </dependency>