We've been discussing a typesafe property model before, and I'd like to see where the current crop of such APIs and suggestions is. With Wicket 1.4 imminent, and our migration to Java 5 this should be much more easy to implement than before.
One such library is http://code.google.com/p/logicalpractice-collections/ where they make selectors available on standard collections. Using their library one can write the following: smiths = select(from(people).getLastName(), equalToIgnoringCase("smith")); Putting my Wicket head on, I think something like: bind(new Label("foo")).to(person).getLastName()); or add(new Label("foo").bind(person).getLastName()); Would be nice. Not sure how this jives with our desire to remove the default model slot. I think having a binding API might nicely coincide with removing a default slot. The details of this are left as an exercise to the reader ;-) Martijn
