Introduction

In a previous blog in our Tapestry series we showed that Tapestry can be used as an API. While we would advice to do this only for simple cases, it could be a good solution if you wanted to offer Web API for your existing Tapestry application. If you were interested in a fully-fledged Web API with all the bells and whistles it would probably be better to use a separate framework.

In a previous blog we build an API returning JSON. This raises the question: is it also possible to return XML? The answer turns out to be yes!

In this blog we will show how to do so.

Prerequisites

This tutorial uses Eclipse with Maven

Code from previous blog : hello_tapestry_validation

Introduction

Tapestry 5 is framework for creating web applications using Java. The framework allows you to generate HTML pages using Java code. This a good thing if you have complex business logic that takes data from the user, database, online resources to present a result as a webpage. We wanted to do something like that for one of our econometric models so we decided to give Tapestry a go for building our web application. Along the way we learned quite a lot about the framework. Some of that we want to share here in a series of blogs. The complete series should be enough to build simple GUI for your Java business logic.

In this blog we will create a hello-world style example using Tapestry 5. The goal of this example is to get you up and running with Tapestry using the skeleton setup that is included with Tapestry. Based on this initial setup we will make changes to get a hello-world page.

Prerequisites

This tutorial uses Eclipse with Maven

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