Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
That's a scarry difference. We should take a good look at that and see what causes it. Personally, I wouldn't expect our 'statefullness' to be the real problem here; as 'heavy' as it sounds to create new objects, this is something Java should be very good at. We should use a profiler to find

Re: [Wicket-user] Component that would render in multiple tags

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
It would be against the usual Wicket scoping though. It's easy to - without a Panel - expand the body of a tag (see AbstractChoice for an example), and it fits the idea of a component being attached to a tag. However, what you want is to let the component operate outside it's tag scope. I

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
When it would be in CVS, we can have more people work on it and we can maybe expand it to include other frameworks (JSF?) in the future. Eelco Eelco Hillenius wrote: Could you share the code in CVS? E.g. put it in a wicket-stuff project? Eelco Phil Kulak wrote: Okay, I just realized that

Re: [Wicket-user] Component that would render in multiple tags

2005-07-11 Thread Juergen Donnerstag
yes, the use case would be interesting and why the 2nd tag can not be a Wicket tag which is made visible or not (setVisible(true/false)) based on some business logic. Juergen On 7/11/05, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be against the usual Wicket scoping though. It's easy to -

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
It doesn't have to be a full fledged project. If you include the dependencies and just check your project files in, that's fine too. Eelco Phil Kulak wrote: I was afraid you would ask me to do that. :) Let me figure out all this Maven stuff you guys use, and then I'll add a

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
will profile it also this week Phil Kulak wrote: I just did some quick testing using the two wars. I did 100 page loads with a brand new session on each load and Tapestry was about twice as fast for the list view page and the much smaller edit page. I wonder what would happen if I made

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
Well, I've done a simple profiling usin JProfiler beta. Beware I've never done any java profiling before. From what I've seen it really doesn't seem that managin state is a big overhead. It seems that the markup rendering is the bottleneck. http://knopp.sk/calltrees.zip Here are the

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Chris Turner
I have just run the two examples through a profiler (YourKit Java Profiler) and I can confirm that the Tapestry example is just over twice as fast as the Wicket one. The amount of difference is variable, with the biggest difference being for the page that renders the list view. Taking a quick

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Chris Turner
One word:*** LOGGING *** Looking through the profile in detail it appears that the benchmark application has no logging configured so by default logging is ON. Many of the preformance bottlenecks seem to be in building the strings for logging. I'm going to figure out how to turn off

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
if that really is the case then we should turn logging default off?? and supply a right properties file? johan Chris Turner wrote: One word:*** LOGGING *** Looking through the profile in detail it appears that the benchmark application has no logging configured so by default logging

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Chris Turner
Confirmed. Turn off the logging (initialise log4j and set level for wicket to INFO or greater) and Wicket is only about 4% slower than the Tapestry application. I suspect with a little effort we could soon tune out this small amount :)Probably best to wait until the 1.1 code base is

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
And of course each log.debug statement should be preceded by: if(log.isDebugEnabled()) Martijn Chris Turner wrote: Confirmed. Turn off the logging (initialise log4j and set level for wicket to INFO or greater) and Wicket is only about 4% slower than the Tapestry application. I suspect

Re: [wicket-user] List of DropDownChoices

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
what kind of exception? Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: Hi, I'm new to Wicket and I have a question. I need to generate and display a List of DropDownChoices. This is the scenario: I have different room types and for every room type I have certain vacancies. So I need to have something like this:

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
Could you please post somewhere the war file with logging disabled? I tried adding log4j.properties with the following content log4j.threshold=info log4j.debug=false into the wicket-benchmark class path but it helped only a little. It seems that I'm doing something wrong. Thank you. Chris

Re: [wicket-user] List of DropDownChoices

2005-07-11 Thread Johannes Fahrenkrug
I attached the exception and this is the code I use to build the list: add (zimmerartenList = new ListView (zimmerartenList, termin.getTerminDetails()) { private static final long serialVersionUID = 2623213955857979457L; @Override protected void

Re: [wicket-user] List of DropDownChoices

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Johannes, You haven't attached a model to the dropdown choice. The constructor you are using implies having a CompoundPropertyModel as ListItem.model. You don't have this, so you need to use another constructor: item.add(new DropDownChoice (paxProZimmerart, new PropertyModel(terminDetail,

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Chris Turner
I actually didn't really polish my setup. I just grabbed some stuff I did on a previous project which made use of the Spring Framework support for log4j configuration. Basically: 1) Copy spring framework jar to your webapp WEB-INF/lib directory 2) Add the following to your web.xml:

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
Thank you. The results I get are mixed. When editing acustomer entry and saving it, the performance is comparable. But deleting the customer, wicket is still almost twice as slow than tapestry. Have you tried to do nothing but deleting like 10 customers? I'm under an impression that rendering

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
Hmm.. Using YourKit Java Profiler, wicket really is only marginaly slower. I wonder why JProfiler makes such a difference (on the highest accurate settings). Matej Knopp wrote: Thank you. The results I get are mixed. When editing acustomer entry and saving it, the performance is comparable.

Re: [wicket-user] List of DropDownChoices

2005-07-11 Thread Johannes Fahrenkrug
Martijn, thank you so much for your help. Now it works perfectly. I added the field paxProAnreise to the TerminDetail class, added getters and setters and changed the PropertyModel accordingly. Now my code looks like this: protected void populateItem(ListItem item) { final

Re:[Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Gustavo Hexsel
One possible way would be to have a parent page class that would hold it, and customize your page factory to set it in all created pages. It's pretty easy. Let me know if you can't picture it and I'll try to write a sample code. I use dependency injection in most of my pages and

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Juergen Donnerstag
Nick, please have a look at the two approaches implemented in the examples of the wicket-stuff project. We do not have a preferred way of integrating, as it depends on your requirements. Juergen On 7/11/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking into Wicket and would like

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
I saw that, but didn't see a link to download the code. On 7/11/05, Juergen Donnerstag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, please have a look at the two approaches implemented in the examples of the wicket-stuff project. We do not have a preferred way of integrating, as it depends on your

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
What would you need to make it pretty? If you have concrete idea's on how we can improve Wicket for this, please share them. Eelco Gustavo Hexsel wrote: One possible way would be to have a parent page class that would hold it, and customize your page factory to set it in all created pages.

RE: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Patrick Shea
I'm new to wicket and I am also interested into spring integration. Could the servlet use spring to locate the application class and have the web page class be also spring beans that could get referenced into the app class or simply looked up in the bean factory based on their type

[Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
Hi all, Scenario 1: I have TWO POJO's(models) from backend(Hibernate). I need to display both on ONE form on a page. But i can only give ONE model in constructor to the form ? Does this mean i have to make a new model, which inlcudes both POJO's ? or have one of the POJO's in constructor and

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
You could just throw them in a map. -Phil On 7/11/05, frank bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Scenario 1: I have TWO POJO's(models) from backend(Hibernate). I need to display both on ONE form on a page. But i can only give ONE model in constructor to the form ? Does this

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Holding the beans in the pages is not a good idea. I did this for a bit, but the pages are serialized and your app-context beans aren't. So then you have to make your app-context beans serializable, which defeats the point of having an app context. -Phil On 7/11/05, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL

Re: [Wicket-user] how about the preformance of wicket?

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
There's now a new project wicket-contrib-benchmark. I'll probably add a JSF implementation at some point. -Phil On 7/11/05, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the advice. I've not much experience profiling with java, I didn't know that the time invoking counting is counted in

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
my first day with wicket so please explain it in a bit more detailed way... Page: add(new DetailForm(detailForm, model, feedback)); where du you want to put the map ? /Frank B. On Monday 11 July 2005 19:31, Phil Kulak wrote: You could just throw them in a map. -Phil On 7/11/05, frank

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
Here's how I'm approaching it now: public class MyApplication extends WebApplication { private XmlBeanFactory beans; public MyApplication() { ClassPathResource res = new ClassPathResource(applicationContext.xml); beans = new XmlBeanFactory(res); } public Object

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
you could use a List and then take one object from index 0 or a map and then take it from an name 'object1 you need to look how the ognl _expression_ should be. Als you can hold those 2 objects in one object: ObjectWrapper { object1 object2 } and then put that wrapper object as youre

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Oh sure, not a problem. Say you have two models that you want one form to manipulate. You could have them both as one model like so: Customer customer = ... Producet product = .. Map modelMap = new TreeMap(2); modelMap.put(customer, customer); modelMap.put(product, product); IModel model = new

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Woa, Nick, not a good option. Creating an XmlBeanFactory is very expensive, something you want to do on application startup only, not every page creation. -Phil On 7/11/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's how I'm approaching it now: public class MyApplication extends

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
The BeanFactory is created only on application startup. It's put in the application constructor. Or am I missing something? Actually, i'm using the spring ContextLoaderListener and then find the ApplicationContext in the ServletContext. I have this line in my Application.init () function

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
Then I'm confused. First day with Wicket and all... Isn't the Application object only created once? On 7/11/05, Phil Kulak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woa, Nick, not a good option. Creating an XmlBeanFactory is very expensive, something you want to do on application startup only, not every page

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
This is nice, does this means that both models are automatically updated ? So onsubmit all i have do is something like this ? customerDAO.saveOrUpdate(((Map) getModelObject()).get(customer)); Thanx in advance ! /Frank On Monday 11 July 2005 19:54, Phil Kulak wrote: Oh sure, not a problem.

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
Nick Heudecker wrote: Then I'm confused. First day with Wicket and all... Isn't the Application object only created once? Yes, it is. On 7/11/05, Phil Kulak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woa, Nick, not a good option. Creating an XmlBeanFactory is very expensive, something you want to do on

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Normally, but you are creating a new one (independent of the one that Spring creates on application startup) on every page load. -Phil On 7/11/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I'm confused. First day with Wicket and all... Isn't the Application object only created once?

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Oh, well, if you're just storing the app context in the page, that's probably fine. Just not the individual beans. But, I wouldn't even store that. It's not an expensive lookup (no thread-bound stuff if you're looking from the application or a component) and then you don't have to worry about it

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Yup, that should do it. Maps make great beans when you're too lazy to actually write a new bean. :) Especially Wicket's ValueMap. On 7/11/05, frank bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nice, does this means that both models are automatically updated ? So onsubmit all i have do is

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
Thanks. That'll also work for me. On 7/11/05, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BeanFactory is created only on application startup. It's put in the application constructor. Or am I missing something? Actually, i'm using the spring ContextLoaderListener and then find the

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
Thank you there Phil ! You just made Wicket pass through my framework filter in my mind :) You just made my day..thx /Frank Kastell On Monday 11 July 2005 20:24, Phil Kulak wrote: Yup, that should do it. Maps make great beans when you're too lazy to actually write a new bean. :)

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Matej Knopp
No problem, You've just overlooked it. To me, such things happen all the time :) Phil Kulak wrote: I'm sorry, Marej and Nick. I totally missed that Nick was creating the BeanFactory in the application. Disregard my posts in this topic. On 7/11/05, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Yep. I'd like to stress though, that you can also work with more than one model in a form. You can set a model on a form (e.g. by passing it to super) for convenience. That way, constructs like: add(new Label(myField)) will automatically look up 'myField' in the model that was set on the

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
But if you have models as instance variables you have to take care of adding Changes yourself if you want back button support, right? On 7/11/05, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. I'd like to stress though, that you can also work with more than one model in a form. You can set a

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
You're right. Another disadvantage I didn't think about is that detachable models won't be attached. Eelco Phil Kulak wrote: But if you have models as instance variables you have to take care of adding Changes yourself if you want back button support, right? On 7/11/05, Eelco Hillenius

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
Thx Eelco for pointing that out, that is even more explicit, that was exactly what i was looking for ! You guys rock.. Now i will be moving on to try my own implementation of you're Tree component. Since i need a selection tree with checkboxes. I saw the nested example and that looks like

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
OK, but both situations are not an issue for me in this case, since this is pretty much a one pager and i don't live in a clustered environment :) /Frank B. On Monday 11 July 2005 22:07, Eelco Hillenius wrote: You're right. Another disadvantage I didn't think about is that detachable models

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
For the model change recording (which btw only happens when you replace a model) and detachable behaviour support, you could also wrap your models in another model, that dispatches the recording and detaching. But... if the models are not detachable and you don't replace your models, you'll be

[Wicket-user] EditBook Example

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
Can someone explain what's going on in EditBook#link(String, Long): public static PageLink link(final String name, final long id) { return new PageLink(name, new IPageLink() { public Page getPage() {

Re: [Wicket-user] EditBook Example

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
The link method returns an instance of PageLink. I'm not sure if you're aquinted to anonymous classes, but: return new PageLink(name, new IPageLink() { public Page getPage() { return new EditBook(Book.get(id)); } public Class getPageIdentity() { return EditBook.class; } });

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Gustavo Hexsel
That's not exactly dependency injection. Ideally, Spring should be the page factory, so it creates the pages and sets the dependencies for you. I'm sorry Phil, I know this is not perfect from the serialization point of view, but the pages are the controllers for this app, they need to know

Re: [Wicket-user] Models and POJO's

2005-07-11 Thread frank bengtsson
Actually, I've been hoping all the time that more people would show up to use the tree to get clear what the usuages would be. One thing that I did anticipate though, is that the node definitions would have to be flexible. For this I introduced method 'newNodePanel', which you can override

[Wicket-user] Cool Wicket editorial on networkworld

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
The Wicket press machine is still working... Here's a new editorial I just found: http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2005/0704web1.html Martijn --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
I've been toying with these problems for a while, and others have before me. The ideal solution IS to have pages constructed and injected, and that can be done, actually. The problem is that you loose the ability to have many different constructors and you can't do anything in a constructor

Re: [Wicket-user] Cool Wicket editorial on networkworld

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
I think we need more sticky wicket references. Actually, in the last month I've been using that term very often. Well, considering that I pretty much never used it before. On 7/11/05, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Wicket press machine is still working... Here's a new editorial I

[Wicket-user] in head the Choice implementation is rewritten.

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
Hi, I rewrote the Choice implementation (All the variations of the select tag) We had a IChoiceList and a default implementation where you had to create IChoice wrappers around youre objects. These 2 interfaces and default implementations are all gone now. So this is a pretty big api change

[Wicket-user] bean panel

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
I've been thinking a bit more about the bean panel, and I'm kind of stuck. That is, there's too many possibilities! A simple bean is no problem. I have code in CVS for that now and it works (with a special case, FieldPanel, which lets you select a subset of the properties of the bean). The

Re: [Wicket-user] EditBook Example

2005-07-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Yep, but... this class is used for links that link to pages that are not bookmarkable pages. In other words, the pages that you don't want to make available without a session, and that can't simply be constructed with (or without) a couple of plain parameters. What you are looking for are

Re: [Wicket-user] Spring Integration

2005-07-11 Thread Gustavo Hexsel
I don't want to open a big discussion on service locator vs dependency injection. I know you guys are trying to accomodate as many points of view as possible. I'll check if I can find something to help. The point was that there are situations when dependency injection prevents problems

[Wicket-user] Blank page?

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Heudecker
Sometimes when I make a change to a Java or HTML template, I get a blank page displayed in my browser window. Nothing is sent to the log file, STDOUT or STDERR. I'm sure the error is on my end but there's absolutely no way to figure out what the problem is. Is there some setting I need to

[Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
All, I'd like to know whether anybody is using Wicket professionally (if you can't make that public, just email me personally, I won't disclose it). If you are not using Wicket professionally, what do you miss in order to do so? Are you planning to use Wicket in the (near) future? Let us

Re: [Wicket-user] Blank page?

2005-07-11 Thread Johan Compagner
yes this can happen if the markup can't be parsed and the old one is removed (i believe) we should check this out. Please look when it is exactly happening.. johan Nick Heudecker wrote: Sometimes when I make a change to a Java or HTML template, I get a blank page displayed in my browser

Re: [Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
I'm using Wicket professionally. I just started a new project with it, and I've been using it to add functionality to my old Spring MVC project. You'd be amazed at how easilly I was able to integrate Wicket right in with Spring MVC and ACEGI. Every once in a while theres something in Wicket that

Re: [Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Cool, Can you elaborate more on the project? As far as the documentation is concerned, I would like it when you put it up on the wiki. This way we can integrate (with your permission of course) it into the manual. There is no use in doing stuff twice ;-) I also like the fact that your

RE: [Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Shahid N. Shah
All, I am using it professionally to develop a set of medical applications known as the Medigy Platform. We are a startup and our website at http://www.medigy.com describes our business. If you go to http://demo.medigy.com our rough prototypes are up and running (though not much is working just

Re: [Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Very nice indeed! I checked the URL's and it is definetely Wicket under the belt. Without a backend database the applicaties feels quite fast, and for your information, it renders good under Safari (Mac OSX). I will check your site out in more detail tomorrow (my eyes are running into tears

Re: [Wicket-user] Wicket usage questionaire

2005-07-11 Thread Phil Kulak
Yea, sure. I work for a health care company with about 30,000 members. We're currently branching off another company, Apropo Benefits (.com), that will manage durable medical equipment. My current project is the website for that company. It will involve allowing providers, members, and agents the

Re: [Wicket-user] Cool Wicket editorial on networkworld

2005-07-11 Thread Jesse Sightler
And, of course, feel free to link to mine as well: :-) http://recipe.homeip.net/ Also, I put a simple Wicket tutorial on JRoller earlier today: http://www.jroller.com/page/jsight/ -- Jess On 7/11/05, Gili [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Food for thought: add a who is running Wicket? section to