Hello everybody, it is done - the side project I was working on for all these months has finally reached the "public beta" stage
www.indyphone.de What started as a simple PHP script evolved into a full Java web application. On the way, several known-before techniques were tested (JBoss, JSP, JSF, EJB3) and replaced by what was working a lot better: the "WiSH come true" (Wicket, Spring, Hibernate) and lots of other OSS stuff, with development on Jetty and hosting on Apache / Tomcat. As this is the Wicket users list, I'll share with you some of the reasons why we not only chose Wicket for our web-layer, but also loved it all the way (in case you still need any): * no XML-hell. I never liked Struts because of that. JSF was even worse. * easy setup with quick development-round-trips. * full object orientated programming: when I started learning Java all those years ago, it was with Applets, AWT and Swing. So having a Link with a onClick method, and adding components in a hierarchie felt natural from the very beginning. I really had enough of low level request parameter parsing. * nicely integrated AJAX support: although we're not using that much of it, it was all very easy to use. Replacing a Link with AjaxLink for the first time was really cool. * no special XML-like tags that no designer understands - just HTML with some extra tags. That was a real productivity enhancement, as I work with someone who does very little programming. We were using Dreamweaver for offline prototyping, and to make it work with Wicket, we more or less just had to add unobstrusive tags and attributes (I already blogged about this). * great community and support, as has been proved again just today. Bugs sometimes get fixed withing the hour, and discussion on this list is almost always very friendly and helpful. I cannot remember a single question I had which was not answered until I had a solution - no matter how strange. So, thank you very, very much to all the Wicket developers for creating such a great piece of software! The page would not have been possible like this without it. I hope it will make its stand against the so called industry giants. And of course you're all invited to take a look at indyphone.de, which will certainly keep on evolving - I just hope we found all the bugs for now. If you have any question about how this or that feature was done, feel free to ask. I'm more than willing to share my knowledge and give something back. -- greetings from Berlin, Rüdiger Schulz www.2rue.de www.indyphone.de - Coole Handy Logos einfach selber bauen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
