Tapestry and ‘Editable for Bootstrap’

Twitter Bootstrap is a relief to programmers like me who were never good at web-designing. It has a nice javascript library and there are already modules to integrate twitter-bootstrap with tapestry. There are a lot of good add ons coming up for bootstrap and one of my favourites is the Editable for Bootstrap. Every time I see such a library I wait for a oppurtunity to integrate it with Tapestry.

Scrolling pages : tapestry5 & onScrollBeyond

This blog is about adding pagination in Tapestry 5 using jQuery based onScrollBeyond(). It might sound difficult but as always tapestry makes it so easy that you wonder whether it is worth blogging about .

Multivalue AutoComplete for Tapestry

I have been very experimenting with tapestry-jquery plugin and it is great to finally go back to jquery. Not only using jquery is very easy but it also comes with a lot of plugins.

There are some improvements that I think can be added to the tapestry-jquery integration but don’t get time to discuss them in the mailing list.

Recently I wanted to use a multivalue autocomplete something on the lines of https://github.com/argoyle/tapestry-tagselect and found a wonderful plugin http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/

Integrating Bootstrap JS with Tapestry5

Adding Bootstrap JS Twispy to your template is very easy

<a href='#' class='twipsy' data-title='My Twipsy'>Hover over me</a>
<script type='text/javascript'>
   $('.twipsy').twipsy();
</a>

and you can always use property-expressions to display some dynamic data. But what if you want to have block rendered as title. This was exactly what I was trying to accomplish in one of my recent projects. (We are using tapestry-jquery for jquery support in that project.)

Tapestry 5.3+ New Features : Part 2

AjaxResponseRender

This is one of the most useful feature of Tapestry 5.3. There is already a concept of Zone in Tapestry for Ajax but now it is complimented by AjaxResponseRenderer. This fills a lot of gaps at least for people coming from Wicket. It is a bit similar to AjaxRequestTarget but empowered with Zones and JSON. I have compiled a small example demonstrating most of the features.

Tapestry JFreeChart integration

I just finished integrating JFreeChart with Tapestry. Each time you integrate a library with Tapestry you are full of praise for the framework. This is something you can seldom say about other web frameworks.

I had two usages in mind.

1. As a return value from an event handler.
2. As a component which can be used to display JFreeChart and a corresponding imagemap