One thing I find interesting in Wicket is that it makes it easy again to think about an application as a series of "places" where the user can be (+/- versioning). The back/forward buttons navigate between places. Actions manipulate what you see, you don't necessarily go anywhere else.
Thomas On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ive been developing an ajax only application in wicket for a little more > > than 3 months. Users can open "windows" in a multidocument desktop-style > > fashion for various entities and in these "windows/tabs" perform > different > > actions and apply different views. Further they can change views forth > and > > back, close views, rearrange views. I almost NEVER do a page level > GET/POST. > > The fun part is that its working really well. But Ive never seen > something > > like this out on the web really (gmail/gcalendar ok.. but those are quite > > simple apps + they prolly got a big staff to tune every possible metric). > > > > Has anyone done something similar? > > Sure. We (Teachscape) are doing something like that. Not all Ajax > (though we use that regularly as well), but we pretty much do > everything in one page and implement navigation through panel swapping > etc. > > When using Wicket like this, it is best to use the > SecondLevelCacheSessionStore (the default in Wicket 1.3). Wicket 1.2 > and the HttpSessionStore keep recording deltas - which are smaller > than serialized pages, but have enough versions and it adds up - as > long as you stay on one page. At least, that's how it used to be (and > one of the big refactorings of 1.3). > > Eelco > > > > Is this a dangerous track? What is most likely to stop me? How can I > monitor > > the amout o memory a user session consumes? If I find the > > average-request-cpu-cycles * > > average_requests_per_user_during_some_duration.. is it straight forward > to > > see how many simultaneous users I can accomodate? > > > > /Kalle > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Ajax-Only-application---ffeedback-appriciated-tp17694786p17694786.html > > Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > >
