Welcome to Tapestry! This is a tutorial for people who will be creating Tapestry 5 applications. It doesn’t matter whether you have experience with Tapestry 4 (or Tapestry 3, for that matter) or whether you are completely new to Tapestry. In fact, in some ways, the less you know about web development in general, and Tapestry in particular, the better of you may be ... that much less to unlearn! You do need to have a reasonable understanding of HTML, a smattering of XML, and a good understanding of basic Java language features, and a few newer things such as Java Annotations. If you look on the Tapestry web site, you’ll see the following description of Tapestry: ❝

Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scal- able 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 com-ponents. This provides a consistent structure, allowing the Tapestry framework to assume responsibility for key concerns such as URL construction and dispatch, per-sistent state storage on the client or on the server, user input validation, localization/internationalization, and exception reporting. Developing Tapestry applications in-volves creating HTML templates using plain HTML, and combining the templates with small amounts of Java code. 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 develop-ment to Java web applications.