Hi Ahmed
Id admit that wicket has some places that needs some tidying if youre
strict. Like having the requiredtextfield and the setrequired on the
textfield. But other than that the api are pretty clean I think. I could
you come with some examples on a place where wicket could learn from
drupal, I have looked at this page
http://api.drupal.org/api/group/form/6? But could not see anything
special... Could you point out something more precise?
Also I think that it would be a mistake for wicket to move away from the
swing like approach. This is one of the strengths I believe, although
might only be for legacy coders (if you consider swing legacy).
regards Nino
Ahmed Al-Obaidy wrote:
Hi Korbinian,
If we take the core of Drupal without its CMS modules, it is more a Web
applications framework than anything. Look at Form, Theme and Data Access APIs.
It is really amazing!
Plus, I'm not talking about porting Drupal to Java, I'm talking about learning
from them.
As I had understood from 'Wicket in Action', Wicket is about bringing the fun
of developing desktop applications to the Web. That why I'm talking about
learning from Eclipse platform, plugins and RCP.
Drupal will server as a case study howto convert that from the desktop area to
the Web area.
Cheers,
Korbinian Bachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ahmed,
Drupal is a CMS similar to Typo3 & co while wicket is a Java Web
Framework, similar in term to what Zend Framework is to PHP. So they
share nothing real in common - or did I get you wrong?
there has been a CMS called Kronos based on wicket but I dont know what
happened to it.
Best
Korbinian
Ahmed Al-Obaidy schrieb:
First of all, I'm very happy to find this framework... guys you are doing a
great job...
Guys I'm very new to Wicket, so correct me if I'm wrong:
I think we can make use of the approach used by Drupal... I've been using it
for while now... and believe me... it worth to watch... IMHO, they have two
problems, GPL and PHP :(
have a look on their APIs (http://api.drupal.org/api/5)... very clean ... very simple... and yet very powerful...
On Java world we can learn from Eclipse guys... if anyone of you have written
an eclipse based application, he should notice how clean and powerful it is.
If we managed to build such a architecture... something like BodyPart, BoxPart,
MenuBar.... something like Web Widget Tools (WWT) and ContentProvider... I
think that would be revolutionary!
Cheers,
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