In this excerpt from the book Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications author Alexander Kolesnikov looks at building advanced components. Tapestry is an Apache open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. The book is a step-by-step guide to Java Web development with the developer-friendly Apache Tapestry framework.

TurboGears founder Kevin Dangoor has announced the release of TGWebServices, a multiprotocol web services toolkit for TurboGears. TGWebServices provides a super simple API for creating web services that are available via SOAP, HTTP->XML, and HTTP->JSON.

Ohio LinuxFest 2006 is taking place on September 30, 2006. Ohio is a free Linux event for professionals and enthusiasts. Spliced Networks announced that it will exhibit at Ohio LinuxFest 2006 in booth #6. At this event, Mark Ramm of TurboGears, will be a guest at the booth. Spliced Networks said, “TurboGears is the equivalent of “Ruby on Rails”, for the Python programming language.”