I think the main thing that causes people problems with this is that they don't realize you have to move the .html files from WEB-INF/ to the root web directory.
On 2/13/06, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 13 February 2006 00:53, Stewart Robertson wrote: > > I am new Tapestry 4 user and I am trying to standardize on using just the > > HTML page and Annotations. My page specifications are empty and I have > > used the application specification file to indicate the package name for > > all my Java Page classes as well. I no longer want to specify any page > > specification files at all since they are pretty much empty, but tapestry > > throws an exception when I remove them. Is there any way to configure > > tapestry 4 so that you do not have to specify page specifications. Thanks > > for the help and by the way I am very impressed by Tapestry 4......... > > It certainly works, I have three applications running tapestry on my web site > (blog, famtree and akcmoney) all of which don't use them (I occassionally > have a component spec when I don't need a Java class). You are welcome to > take a look at them as examples, the code is either in "git" repositories, or > if you don't know what that is and don't use it, tarballs of the code at > snapshot points exist in the files download section (go to Software Corner of > the web site from the url in my signature). > > The application specification sits in the WEB-INF directory and defines the > class packages location as the example below (from blog) shows (apologies for > mail word wrap) > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC > "-//Apache Software Foundation//Tapestry Specification 4.0//EN" > "http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/dtd/Tapestry_4_0.dtd";> > > <!-- Copyright (c) 2006 Alan Chandler, licenced under the GPL (see LICENCE.txt > file in META-INF directory) --> > > <application name="blog" engine-class="org.apache.tapestry.engine.BaseEngine"> > <description>My Blog</description> > <meta key="org.apache.tapestry.page-class-packages" > > uk.org.chandlerfamily.blog.tapestry.pages > </meta> > <meta key="org.apache.tapestry.component-class-packages"> > uk.org.chandlerfamily.blog.tapestry.components > </meta> > <meta key="org.apache.tapestry.accepted-locales"> > en > </meta> > <meta key="org.apache.tapestry.enable-reset-service"> > true > </meta> > <library id="Contrib" > specification-path="/org/apache/tapestry/contrib/Contrib.library" /> > <library id="akc" > specification-path="/uk/org/chandlerfamily/tapestry/components/akc.library" /> > </application> > > > I am using exclipse (with the wtp package) to develop so although the java > classes will ultimately be under WEB-INF/classes, the WEB-INF itself is under > the Webcontent directory and java sources under the JavaSources directory in > the packages defined above. > > The html templates for pages are at the top level in Webcontent, component > templates are in the WEB-INF directory. > > my hivemodule.xml file is in the META-INF directory under Javasource. > > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ~chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
