Setup for Tapestry JNB Examples

Software Requirements

• Apache Ant Build Tool 1.6.1 http://www.apache.ant.org ANT_HOME environment variable should be defined and $ANT_HOME/bin should be in your $PATH.
• J2SDK1.4.2 http://javasoft.com JAVA_HOME environment variable should be defined
• Servlet Container of your choice. The only requirement is that it implements the Servlet 2.3 spec. I recommend Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/index.html .
• Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry

Setup Instructions

For these instructions the directory where you unzipped the distribution will be referred to as $JNB_INSTALL.

• At a command prompt go to the directory where you installed Tapestry and type: ant download-ext-framework
• Go to $JNB_INSTALL and edit the build.properties file. Change the value of the tapestry.home property to point to the directory you installed Tapestry
• At a command shell go to your $JNB_INSTALL directory and type: ant setup.
• To build the tapestry-piglatin application open a command shell and from the $JNB_INSTALL/tapestry-piglatin directory type: ant war This will create the tapestry-piglatin war file that can be deployed to your application server.
• To build the tapestry-login application open a command shell and from the $JNB_INSTALL/tapestry-login directory type: ant war This will create the tapestry-login war file that can be deployed to your application server.