This four day Core Tapestry: Web Application Development with Tapestry course is taught as an interactive workshop consisting of seven labs. You will learn a different aspect of Tapestry in each lab; a particular component or set of components, or a particular challenge you are likely to face. This Tapestry workshop will give you a thorough introduction into the way of Tapestry, enable you to understand exactly what it is that Tapestry does and how it operates internally.

This Tapestry workshop gently leads you into the way of Tapestry, and helps you understand exactly what it is that Tapestry does and even how it operates internally.

1. Tapestry Basics
   • Overview of Tapestry
   • Pages, templates, property expressions
   • Developer features: Live class reloading, exception reporting
   • Tapestry request cycle
   • Managing server-side state
2. Hibernate
   • Hibernate basics: Session, HQL, Entity types
   • Using a Layout component
   • Displaying results using a Loop
   • Tapestry Dependency Injection
   • Page activation contexts
   • Using and customizing the BeanEditForm component
   • Adding client side user input validation
   • Handling page flow
3. Components
   • Basics: location and naming
   • Defining parameters with @Parameter
   • Using MarkupWriter interface
   • Rendering state machine
   • Render phase methods
   • Layout components
   • Setting a default binding prefix
   • Using Tapestry blocks
   • Customizing BeanEditForm
4. JavaScript
   • Including JavaScript Libraries
   • Creating a RichTextArea component
   • Improving client-side initialization
   • Tapestry 5 IoC in more detail
   • Defining services
   • Dependency Injection
   • Extensibility via Composition
   • Understanding Tapestry Service Configurations
   • Add new data types to BeanEditForm
5. Grid
   • Grid component basics
   • Customizing the Grid
   • Supporting new output data types
   • Using Grid inside Form
6. Ajax
   • Understanding the Ajax lifecycle
   • Using the ProgressiveDisplay component
   • Using the Zone component
   • Adding Keywords to Posts
   • Linking client-side behavior to server-side events
   • Editing Keywords using a Modalbox dialog
7. Testing
   • Types of testing: unit, integration, acceptance, performance
   • Using Groovy for writing tests
   • Unit testing with TestNG
   • Mocking services and resources with EasyMock
   • Using the PageTester utility
   • What is Selenium?
   • Writing integration tests using Selenium
8. Tapestry Deep Dive
   • Managing Page State
   • Secure Page Access
   • Localization
   • Service Overriding and Decoration
   • Page Lifecycle Methods
   • Advanced Components
   • Advanced Templates
   • Creating Component Libraries
   • Tapestry Request Processing