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Simple Components
In this chapter, we are going to examine a number of components. I have called them
simple because they map directly, or almost directly, to HTML controls and elements.
Simple components are normally used on every page of a Tapestry web application,
and so we should know them quite well.
There are also more complex components in Tapestry. They can save you a lot
of work when creating a functionally rich interface. Those components will be
discussed in the next chapter.
Instead of giving you a systematic, but dry and boring description of components
and their properties, I have decided to take a different approach. We are going to
build a web application??”more or less close to real life, but somewhat simplified,
in order not to overshadow the ideas and principles of Tapestry with details
of implementation.
This means that we shall introduce components "in their natural environment", when
we need them for the page we are working on??”a less systematic, but more practical
approach. One of the results is that we shall need to spend some time creating the
project, discussing its structure and writing some auxiliary code.
The components we are going to learn in this chapter are:
TextField: You have already met this component in the previous chapter,
but I want to show you more of its properties.
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