yes, they use the same service layer and the same caches. Whats more its easier to deploy & build one war insted of many. Does your question suggests that there are problems with few Wicket filters in one webapp ?
Thomas Mäder wrote: > > What you call "modules" really sounds like different web applications (in > the java servlet sense). Is there a reason you cannot have multiple WARs? > > Thomas > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Lipski > <daniel.lipski...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> Im working on web application divided into multiple 'modules' and Im >> wondering how to use Wicket in such >> scenario. Because 'module' means a lot, I'll specify what I would like to >> achive: >> 1)diffrent home pages for each module >> 2)diffrent session classes for each module (WebApplication.newSession) >> 3)diffrent authentications (ie. module A - SSO, module B - web form) >> >> I can imagine two approaches: >> 1)one Wicket application 'handling' both modules.But...: >> -because there is one appication I'll have to check logged user in >> WebApplication.newSession & WebApplication.getHomePage and return proper >> session object/home page class. Decision is taken on logged user, so in >> that >> methods Ill have to know which user has logged in. Is it possible to >> check >> logged user in this methods ? (arent they called before authentication ?) >> The other way is to make a decission not on logged user but on accessed >> Page >> (all pages in moduleA inherit from ModuleAWebPage and pages in moduleB >> inherit from ModuleBWebPage). But I doubt if requested page is avaliable >> in >> this two methods... >> -module A uses SSO to authenticate user, module B uses usual page, where >> should I choose how to authenticate user ? Which authenticating framework >> should I choose for this purpose ? (auth-roles, WASP ?) >> >> 2)Two Wicket applications each 'handling' one module. Because there are >> two >> WebApplications there is no problem with determinig which session >> object/home page class return. There is no problem with diffrent >> authentications either. >> But...: >> -Is it possible ? Can I map WicketFilter few times in web.xml ? I know >> that >> Wicket does a lots internal and I dont know if multiple Wicket >> 'instances' >> can be run in one classloader. Are there any caveats/limitations when >> multiple Wicket instances work in parell (does Application.get() or other >> static methods still work - I saw that they are implemened with >> ThreadLocal >> but ...?) >> -How running multiple Wicket instances influences session size and other >> resources ? >> -Ther is a lot of settings (DI, mounting startegies, 'global' converters, >> global resources) that need to be shared beetweend this two modules. For >> majority of them I can make super class for both ModuleAWebApplication >> and >> ModuleBWebApplication and put common code there, but does moduleA can >> access >> shared by moduleB resources ? >> -It looks a little bit strange for me to create diffrent Wicket Web >> applications for each module. From the 'outside'(servlet container) its >> still one apllication (one war) so there is a little mismatch. Of course >> this is the least siginificant reason but I would like to use proper >> solutions rather then stretch the wrong one. >> >> For now Im closer to solution 2), but I worry about things which I havnt >> foreseen. Maybe there is general rule/pattern/solution for writing >> multi-module web applciaions ? Im sure its common issue and many of you >> could share some experience. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> Regards >> Daniel >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Multi-module-applications-in-Wicket-tp21774998p21774998.html >> Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Thomas Mäder > www.devotek-it.ch > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Multi-module-applications-in-Wicket-tp21774998p21786663.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
