Maybe I didn't express myself cleary, sorry. JPA is very cool and all, but it requires jars that you have to download from Sun, because they aren't distributed freely (thus ibiblio.org). This is a major problem with Maven, since this is what Maven does - gets the publicly available jars for you, so the only thing you have to do to build and run a project is mvn package or mvn jetty:run.
Now, I don't say JPA is evil because of that. I'm currently working on a project that is heavy-JPA and I too feel that it is one of the coolest three-letter acronyms in Java. But it would hinder the redistributabily and availability of the demo application - you'll have to download the jars yourself and manually install it in Maven's repository (and that sucks bit time). So for this reason, I prefer to avoid it - it is hadly central for the project itself, and that is why I even prefer to use a mocked-up model and not a big framework that does some persisting. On the other hand, it is important to show how Wicket works with domain models, not just how it handles web page rendering and request processing. I've went through three pases on how domain interaction should be split around my components and models in the aforemented project and each of them could have been avoided if I had a good seperation between the two concepts before that. So for this reason, it would be cool to have Spring and Hibernate, since they influence building a web app a lot. So I'm not really sure which way to go. And let me add something for my previous email, since it's too vague - it would be a "How to build a pet store with wicket" guide. I think it is good to start with something small and that will produce something useful even if left unfinished (at least a demo application and maybe a guide how to do it). But I also want to write a reference manual and I actually started with this idea. One thing I'm lack is a Table of Contents, though, since I have no idea of how to categorize everything in Wicket. If anyone has an idea and feels that it is worth it, please do send your thoughs - I will eventually start writing a reference manual too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
