A maven archetype is really helpful and the quickstart guide is good but for me personally I would rather see the documentation restructured a bit. The thing I miss is a small text explaining what the different JAR-files actually contain. Something like this (pardon my english, it is not my native language):
Introduction ----------------- To build a wicket web application you need to understand the WAR-format and what the web.xml is. "Introduction on Java web applications" A must read for anyone developing web applications with Java. We presume you know this before you start working with Wicket. Quick start ---------------- The following JAR-files are the minimum needed in WEB-INF/lib to developa a wicket application: * wicket-1.3.0-beta3.jar * slf4j-api-1.4.2.jar * slf4j-jdk14-1.4.2.jar Maven --------- If you use maven (http://maven.apache.org/) which the wicket project uses there is an arcehtype that can get you up to speed quickly. See http://wicket.apache.org/quickstart.html That's it, now go kick the tires! More features of wicket ---------------------------------- * wicket-auth-roles-1.3.0-beta3.jar - http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/acegi-and-wicket-auth-roles.html * wicket-datetime-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? * wicket-extensions-1.3.0-beta3.jar - More components... * wicket-ioc-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? * wicket-guice-1.3.0-beta3.jar - Integration with the Guice IoC container * wicket-jmx-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? * wicket-objectsizeof-agent-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? * wicket-spring-1.3.0-beta3.jar - http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/spring.html * wicket-spring-annot-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? * wicket-velocity-1.3.0-beta3.jar - ??? On 9/8/07, Gwyn Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, September 8, 2007, 2:00:32 PM, Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure, there is nothing special about Ant and wicket is very easy to > > set up and the dependencies needed are kind of explained somewhere. > > But I keep seing requests for information from newbies (such as > > myself) answered with maven command lines or "look at the source". > > Well, that's part of the reason that we've created the Maven Archetype > for QuickStart and documented it at http://wicket.apache.org/quickstart.html. > > While we've got nothing against anyone creating a "Wicket and Ant" > page on the Wiki, if users aren't able to either install Maven to use > the Archetype or take the downloads we supply and use them in Ant > without it all done for them, then to my mind, there's a significant > danger that the level of OO coding required to use Wicket might be > problematic for them... > > /Gwyn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
