Hi, We are in the process of moving our applications from JSP to Wicket. Right now we're writing a framework with BasePages and base components to build on and are learning Wicket "on the fly".
The BasePage contains a HeaderPanel which renders the "Headline" of the page: <!-- BasePage.java --> public BasePage() { super(); . . header = new HeaderPanel("header", getHeaderImagePath()); add(header); } We then subclass BasePage and implement getHeaderImagePath() which is abstract. HeaderPanel reads the header from a .properties file and uses a different resourceKey depending on what "mode" the page is in. E.g. if the page is in "edit mode", the HeaderPanel tries to read editHeadline, and if the page is in "view mode" the HeaderPanel tries to read viewHeadline: <!-- Extract from HeaderPanel.java constructor --> add(new Label("viewHeadline", new StringResourceModel("viewHeadline", this, model)) { @Override public boolean isVisible() { return getMode() == Mode.VIEW; } }.setRenderBodyOnly(true)); <!-- SubclassPage.java --> public class SubclassPage extends BasePage public SubclassPage() { super(); } } Now for the "problem": We would like to be able to read the localization properties from the Page _Subclass_ .properties file. This apparently won't work because the HeaderPanel is added in BasePage constructor, and uses that as "parent component" to HeaderPanel in the StringResourceModel. Of course we can create methods like getViewHeadline() and force the Page subclass to implement/override them, but is there a better way? Is it possible to get the values from the Page Subclass .properties file? Thanks! Regards, Leo