Wicket versus Spring MVC

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Allen
applications we produce. My colleague emailed the instructor from SpringSource and asked what he thought of us migrating to Wicket instead of Spring MVC. His response is below with my comments inlined. I would appreciate any convincing comments from Wicket experts. Thanks, Richard Allen Rich, Some

Re: Wicket versus Spring MVC

2008-10-20 Thread Richard Allen
Joel, What advantage does Tapestry 5 provide you over Wicket for your front office pages? Thanks, Richard Allen On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Joel Halbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're actually using two web frameworks in our application, depending on > the type

Re: Wicket community traction / Wicket Web 2.0 experience

2008-10-21 Thread Richard Allen
with sites using Wicket: http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/sites-using-wicket.html Also, the Wicket in Action forward by Jonathan Locke mentions that IBM, TomTom, Nikon, VeriSign, Amazon, and SAS use Wicket. Thanks, Richard Allen On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Wicket and Ext JS integration

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Allen
/index.php/extjs-integrationm, which is version 0.1.0, published in February 2008. Is the wicket-tools-extjs project in active development or was that project abandoned? Is there any other significant work undergoing to integrate Wicket and Ext JS? Thanks, Richard Allen

Re: Wicket and Ext JS integration

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Allen
d the effort, then that would help. The amount of work involved in integrating ExtJS 2.2 with Wicket is part of our new web framework evaluation criteria. Thanks, Richard Allen On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I though

Re: Wicket and Ext JS integration

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Allen
Paolo, Is this an open source effort? What version of ExtJS are you using? If we were to choose to go with Wicket, we would be willing to contribute. Thanks, Richard Allen On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Paolo Di Tommaso < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a wicket-e

Re: Wicket and Ext JS integration

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Allen
have any suggestion where the project could be hosted? Google code? > and any idea about the licence? > > > Thank you, Paolo > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Richard Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > Paolo, > > > > Is this an open sou

Re: Disabling 'back'/'next' web browser button usage in application

2008-10-29 Thread Richard Allen
I think a better solution is to make the browser's back/forward buttons have the same effect as clicking on the 'Previous Question'/'Next Question' buttons. If you put effort into making that work instead of putting your effort into trying to disable the browser's back/forward buttons, then you wil

Re: Extensible wicket application

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Allen
Here is a good intro to OSGi: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2008/jw-03-osgi1.html Here is one framework for running Wicket in OSGi: http://www.ops4j.org/projects/pax/wicket/ Here is a project that integrates Guice, Wicket, Hibernate, and OSGi: http://code.google.com/p/modulefusion/ -Ric

Re: ResourceReference question

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Allen
I believe you want to use ContextRelativeResource. See: http://wicket.apache.org/docs/1.4/index.html?org/apache/wicket/resource/ContextRelativeResource.html On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Eyal Golan wrote: > Hello, > I've been looking for an answer but couldn't find it. > We have a page that

Re: Putting HTML files in src/main/webapp

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Allen
If you are using war, then the maven-war-plugin will automatically pick up the resources in src/main/webapp, which means you do not have to configure that directory as a resource. Additionally, the maven-resources-plugin automatically picks up resources in src/main/resources, so you don't have to e

Re: Putting HTML files in src/main/webapp

2009-05-05 Thread Richard Allen
To make Luther's point more explicit: Wicket allows you to bundle everything a Wicket component needs (Java code, HTML, CSS, images, etc.) into a single JAR and drop that JAR into the WEB-INF/lib directory of any WAR, thereby making the JAR essentially self-contained and reusable. The benefit this

Re: JDeveloper - Can I get a show of hands?

2009-07-02 Thread Richard Allen
Now that Oracle bought Sun I wonder if JDev and Netbeans will cross paths. A great free, cross-platform SQL tool is SQuirreL ( http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/). On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Scott Swank wrote: > I'm at best 50% DBA, by training. You end up with multi-step > operations

Re: How to organize pages layout in real world applications

2009-10-13 Thread Richard Allen
One way is to make your "Client" area a Wicket Panel and make your nav links extend AjaxLink (or AjaxFallbackLink), then add the Client Panel to the AjaxRequestTarget in your implemented AjaxLink.onClick(AjaxRequestTarget) method. Note, the components you add to the AjaxRequestTarget must have Comp

Re: How to organize pages layout in real world applications

2009-10-13 Thread Richard Allen
Also, this explains the example: http://wicket.apache.org/exampleajaxcounter.html 2009/10/13 Richard Allen > One way is to make your "Client" area a Wicket Panel and make your nav > links extend AjaxLink (or AjaxFallbackLink), then add the Client Panel to > the AjaxRe

Re: Wicket Release Plans for 1.5

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Allen
Is the Wicket Ajax Next Generation work going into 1.5? Also, is there plans for an event bus, sort of like what you see in Jonathan Locke's 26 wicket tricks source code? I've seen some really nice use of event bus in GWT that I think Wicket could benefit from. -Richard On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at

Re: OFF TOPIC - all-in-one wysiwyg website package?

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Allen
What about just starting with Google Sites: http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html ? It's free and easy. Good for a static website, which sounds like what you are looking to produce. -Richard On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Stefan Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at Joomla 1

Re: OFF TOPIC - all-in-one wysiwyg website package?

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Allen
Brix (http://code.google.com/p/brix-cms/). But it's new and not as feature rich as something like Joomla. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Johan Compagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Where is the Wicket solution! >

Re: Wicket with GWT

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Allen
If ExtJS essentially gives you what you want in the way of widgets, why not look into integration of ExtJS and Wicket? In the near future, we will be migrating our applications that use ExtJS to Wicket. There has already been some work done in this area. See the following links. ExtJS 2.2: http://

Re: Wicket with GWT

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Allen
Also, can you share what you get from Wicket that you don't get from GWT? That would be useful for those who venture on this list considering GWT versus Wicket. Thanks, Richard On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Richard Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > If ExtJS essentially give

Re: Javascript Wicket wrapper (like ExtGwt and SmartGWT) ?

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Allen
For integration between Ext JS and Wicket, check out: http://code.google.com/p/wicket-ext/ http://www.wickettools.org/index.php/extjs-integration -Richard On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Cédric Thiébault < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Yes I was thinking about something like this but with m

Re: [OT] wicket users around the world

2008-12-11 Thread Richard Allen
American in Atlanta, Georgia, USA On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, francisco treacy < francisco.tre...@gmail.com> wrote: > to know a little bit more of our great (and vast) community, i was > just wondering if you're keen on sharing where you come from and/or > where you work with wicket... > > f

Re: Wicket-spring-tomcat integration

2008-12-15 Thread Richard Allen
The url-pattern only supports using a wildcard at the end of the pattern (e.g., "/myapp/*") or as a extension mapping prefix (e.g., *.do). See section SRV.11.2 of the servlet specification, which can be downloaded from here: http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr154/index.html Therefo

Re: Wicket/Eclipse/Maven/m2eclipse - HTML files not refreshing

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Allen
The only time I have seen something under the target folder added as a source folder in Eclipse is if it specifically configured that way in the section of the pom.xml. This is sometimes done if you are generating sources or resources using something like JAXB, e.g., target/generated-sources. -Ri

Re: Wicket/Eclipse/Maven/m2eclipse - HTML files not refreshing

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Allen
Using m2eclipse, you can also create a new Maven project using an archetype from within Eclipse. Choose File > New > Maven Project > Next, and select the archetype you want to use. See: http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/eclipse-sect-m2e-create-archetype.html -Richard On Fri, Jan 16,

Re: JavaScript and Wicket

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Allen
See: http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/calling-wicket-from-javascript.html Or more generally: http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/ajax.html -Richard On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Sniffer wrote: > > Thanx, I think I understand you, but still I'm not sure how to contribute > client custom JS script wi

Re: Things I miss in Wicket

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Allen
> > > What I don't like about Wicket is, that it is like writing normal Java > applications - although rich clients applications are being replaced with > web-based solutions and there is a fundamental difference between > web-applications and normal java applications. If you have a java > applicat

Re: Active Wicket ExtJS ?

2009-01-30 Thread Richard Allen
See: http://code.google.com/p/wicket-ext/ On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Hoover, William wrote: > Is there any active projects for Wicket and ExtJS out there? I know of > the one that used to be at wickettools.org, but it looks like a dead > project (no updates for over a year). There was also

Re: Using Eclipse & Wicket for Modular Webapps

2009-02-09 Thread Richard Allen
That is very interesting. We have divided our web applications into "modules", which are essentially mini WARs that are merged in the build process to make the final deployed WAR. This allows us to share these "modules" among various web applications, which helps with code reuse and maintainability

Re: Yet another Wicket quick start application...

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Allen
As a fairly new Wicket user, I find it moderately difficult and confusing to find out what libraries/toolkits/frameworks/components/ide pluins/etc. are available. There doesn't seem to be a central comprehensive list that is regularly maintained. I feel like I have to look in several places, or do

Re: Yet another Wicket quick start application...

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Allen
True. And I have no problem with that. I'll update the wiki with what I know before the end of the week. However, I believe the good management of projects is in large part what makes them a success. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Martijn Dashorst < martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Most

Re: Yet another Wicket quick start application...

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Allen
get better in the near future. > > francisco > > -- > http://wickethub.org > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Richard Allen > wrote: > > True. And I have no problem with that. I'll update the wiki with what I > know > > before the end of the we

Re: Yet another Wicket quick start application...

2009-02-20 Thread Richard Allen
Sure. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:45 AM, nino martinez wael < nino.martinez.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > If your on it Richard, could you put in the wicket merchandise shop aswell? > cafepress.com/apachewicket > > 2009/2/19 Richard Allen > > > I like the wickethub.o

Re: GSoC ideas for 09

2009-02-26 Thread Richard Allen
I did some reading and found that a "mentoring organization" for the GSoC is considered "A group running an active free/open source software project". That seems to imply a core committer would need to be involved. See: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_org_is_47611255748869

Re: GSoC ideas for 09

2009-02-26 Thread Richard Allen
The words of C. Bergstrom may have been poorly chosen, but he seems to have the same goal of wanting Wicket to succeed and grow in popularity. Providing harsh responses to users that, despite poor communication, are otherwise excited about your project does not help to grow your community or get ot

Re: GSoC ideas for 09

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Allen
gs > > fixed in 1.3.6 and 1.4, I find it hard to believe that anyone will > > have the time and energy to do the mentoring as well. I don't have > > that time and energy. > > > > Martijn > > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Richard Allen

Re: What IDE best fits with Wicket?

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Allen
I think when/if Eclipse supports nested projects, that might help. Eclipse.org appears to be working on it for version 4. See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35973 I have also ran into problems with m2eclipse, however I have kept it installed for use with small projects and for the