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.

Karthik Gurumurthy speaks on ‘Wicket, Tapestry and JSF side by side’ at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007 held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India. Component based framework build pages from reusable components, the way you build a windows GUI application. The emergence of Microsoft’s ASP.NET and Sun’s JSF is probably testimonial to the fact that Component based Web development is the future.