Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Korbinian Bachl
-user@lists.sourceforge.netBetreff: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? - Java code is MUCH cleaner with WO, you keep in code only data pushed in thepresentation layer and actions. No need to add components and configure them in java code.how is this MUCH cleaner

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Anders Peterson
Igor Vaynberg wrote: but this is for me where the problem is - if your components are delcared declaratively then you cannot have dynamic page structures. eg switching panels around, moving panels. this was one of the reasons i switched away from tapestry. Like this?

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Anders Peterson
WO is free since about 1 year and may be about to become open source. Try it and learn what some really talented people designed more than 10 years ago. ...and if you want to ask questions about technical details - ask the people who know. WO has a very good on-line community.

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Alexis
yes that could be interesting ! To add on the subject, the binding file of WO uses what they call KeyValueCoding to move back and forth values in components exemple, to declare a Label component : myString : WOString { value = myObject.toString } or myLoginString : WOString { value =

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Alexis
In fact, we prefer not deploy WO app in a servlet container. A WO web app tool (called JavaMonitor) is used to deploy WO app, tweaking params, numbers of instances, monitoring of sessions, load balancing. You can also easely deploy instances on different servers... that's why we haven't felt the

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Alexis
Frank Silbermann wrote: Suppose I've built a page and later decide, in view of the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle that a portion of my page should be refactored into a custom component. With Wicket I can move some of the page's Java code into my new panel class, and move HTML

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Frank Silbermann
: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? How you do (refactoring) with WO : WOLips (eclipse plugin) create a new component (juste give it a name), open in WOBuilder (WYSIWYG editor for editing simlessly both HTML template and binding file, in fact you don't have to know there's 2 files), cut

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-31 Thread Igor Vaynberg
not a lot of docs on that is there? here is what i infer - its a switch - that means you have to have all possibilities predefined and then at runtime choose which one to display. this is not dynamic because all choises are predefined. in wicket i can create any panel on the fly and swap it in for

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Anders Peterson
WebObjects ? e.g. a small comparision? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Anders Peterson Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. August 2006 10:41 An: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? I know

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Anders Peterson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Peterson Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:51 PM To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Not sure what to say... it makes me productive... It's

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Igor Vaynberg
Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Not sure what to say... it makes me productive... It's not really fair to compare Wicket and WebObjects (WO). WO is a whole package of frameworks and tools that function well together (but can be used independently). Wicket needs team mates

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Anders Peterson
There are other WO developers better suited to answer those question. I'm cross posting to webobjects-talk and hope someone will pick up the thread. /Anders Igor Vaynberg wrote: I guess i would be interested in knowing how web objects stores state and how the back button is handled. is

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Martijn Dashorst
] ] On Behalf Of Anders Peterson Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:51 PM To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Not sure what to say... it makes me productive... It's not really fair to compare Wicket and WebObjects (WO). WO

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Igor Vaynberg
12:51 PM To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Not sure what to say... it makes me productive... It's not really fair to compare Wicket and WebObjects (WO). WO is a whole package of frameworks and tools that function well together

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Frank Silbermann
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Peterson Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:21 AM To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Frank Silbermann wrote: What facility does Web Objects provide that lets you avoid

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread middledot
Found a link that gives a nice overview of WebObjects. Make sure you watch a 15 min intro to WO: http://rentzsch.com/webobjects/wo5in15 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Nathan Hamblen
They've got a friggin' laser beam connecting data fields to their HTML counterparts! I want a laser beam. I wonder if we do could it, but without tools? Like, instead of presenting that error screen when the markup doesn't match the component hierarchy, we could have some ajaxy laser beam to

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Alex
Martijn Dashorst martijn.dashorst at gmail.com writes: Apple will make (most of) WebObjects open source with the new release (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608webobjects.html). Has anyone worked with WebObjects and wishes to comment on it compared to Wicket? Martijn We can only

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Johan Compagner
looks to me (and i did know this before) that WO was light years ahead of its timeSuch a pitty that apple did keep it so closed... (do they something right ;))johanOn 8/30/06, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn Dashorst martijn.dashorst at gmail.com writes: Apple will make (most of) WebObjects

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Martijn Dashorst
They made good money of it I think... The list price was HUGE! Martijn On 8/30/06, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks to me (and i did know this before) that WO was light years ahead of its time Such a pitty that apple did keep it so closed... (do they something right ;)) johan

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Igor Vaynberg
- Java code is MUCH cleaner with WO, you keep in code only data pushed in thepresentation layer and actions. No need to add components and configure them in java code.how is this MUCH cleaner? just because there is no code? you can say code for a framework that is configured via xml is also

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Thanks for that reply Alex! Some remarks below. We can only compare the presentation stack of WO vs Wicket. Having worked with both frameworks, here are some thoughts : - Java code is MUCH cleaner with WO, you keep in code only data pushed in the presentation layer and actions. No need to

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Eelco Hillenius
but this is for me where the problem is - if your components are delcared declaratively then you cannot have dynamic page structures. eg switching panels around, moving panels. Yeah, forgot to mention that one. VERY big thing. Eelco

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Alex
Thank's for your reply! Only if you consider less the same as cleaner. If you are doing a lot of inter-component interactions, this would actually be a disadvantage. What I (and collegues) do a lot is use a component (e.g. a panel) and a bunch of nested classes in that panel (Panels,

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Igor Vaynberg
it really sucks that WO forces threadsafety onto the user when deployed as a java app. that is something we work hard on in wicket - to shield the users - because lets face it threadsafety is one of the most error prone tasks in coding. For example, I'm thinking of some pages sometimes that

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Off topic, are there other Web Mailinglist reader than gmane, its posting form is driving me crazy. Try nabble.com, or gmail.com ;-) Martijn -- Download Wicket 1.2.2 now! New Ajax components: Tree, TreeTable and ModalWindow -- http://wicketframework.org

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Can you expand on where/ why you think that difference comes from? Are some of the default components of WO better abstracted for the kind of things you do? For example, I'm thinking of some pages sometimes that contains tons of little dynamic label (or WOString ;)). In a declarative way,

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Frank Silbermann
The _Java_ code is cleaner and simpler withWeb Objects, but in Wicket the HTML-based tag file is much cleaner. That component configuration information has to go _somewhere_! Personally, I find it much easier to read Java syntaxthan HTML. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-30 Thread Frank Silbermann
Igor has already mentioned one advantage of declaring and configuring components in code -- it is easy to make the presentation very dynamic. For example, when displaying products from a catalog, the page constructor can vary the display-components used depending upon the type of product

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Anders Peterson
I know WebObjects much better than I know Wicket... The only reason I looked at Wicket is because Apple made some very strange decisions regarding licensing and support for other platforms about a year ago. Should the open source rumors be true (I'm not sure they are) I'll most likely go back

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Korbinian Bachl
comparision? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Anders Peterson Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. August 2006 10:41 An: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? I know WebObjects much better than I

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Anders Peterson
-user] WebObjects open source? I know WebObjects much better than I know Wicket... The only reason I looked at Wicket is because Apple made some very strange decisions regarding licensing and support for other platforms about a year ago. Should the open source rumors be true (I'm not sure

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Eelco Hillenius
:) It's one of my favorite parts of Wicket, so sure. What about the strong points of WebObjects, what are the things you really like about that? Eelco On 8/29/06, Anders Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, if it has to be just like Wicket to compete; you win. ;-)

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Anders Peterson
Not sure what to say... it makes me productive... It's not really fair to compare Wicket and WebObjects (WO). WO is a whole package of frameworks and tools that function well together (but can be used independently). Wicket needs team mates to replace WO entirely. With Wicket any html and java

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Igor Vaynberg
Start up the WOBuilder tool, create a WODisplayGroup instance and start (visually) combining WOComponents and binding them to data. It's fastand intuitive...sounds like...i dont knowasp.net+vs.net combo? :)-Igor - Using

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Johan Compagner
igor, Why don't you just start coding and make a WicketBuilder that just does that?instead of always making fun of people.. bad bad bad.johanOn 8/29/06, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start up the WOBuilder tool, create a WODisplayGroup instance and start (visually) combining WOComponents

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Igor Vaynberg
hey! i wasnt making fun - just drawing a comparison. why are you so bitter? dont you have some bugs to fix?-IgorOn 8/29/06, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:igor, Why don't you just start coding and make a WicketBuilder that just does that?instead of always making fun of people.. bad bad

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Alexandru Popescu
Peterson Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. August 2006 10:41 An: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? I know WebObjects much better than I know Wicket... The only reason I looked at Wicket is because Apple made some very strange decisions

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Johan Compagner
maybe i am bitter because of all the bug fixing! havent you thought about that!But i really like to see the WicketBuilder that you build..Then i will fix the bugs you introduce in it (and that will make me happy ofcourse) so we have a great Drag N Drop wicket ui builder. That generates everything

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Igor Vaynberg
read about it here http://rayserv.upb.de/fiff/themen/IT-arbeit/PFIfF-IgorOn 8/29/06, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe i am bitter because of all the bug fixing! havent you thought about that!But i really like to see the WicketBuilder that you build..Then i will fix the bugs you

Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-29 Thread Frank Silbermann
instead of using some IDE's graphical GUI-painter?) /Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Peterson Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:51 PM To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source? Not sure

[Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?

2006-08-28 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Apple will make (most of) WebObjects open source with the new release (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608webobjects.html). Has anyone worked with WebObjects and wishes to comment on it compared to Wicket? Martijn -- Download Wicket 1.2.2 now! New Ajax components: Tree, TreeTable and