Run the Application

You should already be running the Jetty server in a window, and have a browser running the tutorials page. Select the first option, Hello World, from the list. You will be presented with the first (and only) page generated by Tapestry for this application:

Figure 3.5. Hello World Application

Not much of an application ... there's no interactivity. It might as well be a static web page, but it's a start. Remember, there was no JavaServer page here, and no HTML directly visible to the web server. There was an application consisting of a single component.

In the following chapters, we'll see how to add dynamic content and then true interactivity.