Bill Joy from Sun once said: innovation happens elsewhere. I think that the where elsewhere isn't, it is the JCP. Standardization is just antithetical to innovation. Once something is fixed in brick/mortar how can you innovate? Wicket is very comfortably located elsewhere.
Martijn On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Igor Vaynberg <[email protected]> wrote: > we like the agility that the independence from any sort of a standard offers > us. > > -igor > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Hoover, William <[email protected]> wrote: >> Judging by the responses (or the lack thereof), It seems as though there >> isn't enough support from the Wicket community to push for something like >> this :( >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Thomas Mäder >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:57 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Wicket at ApacheCon EU'09 in Amsterdam >> >> I totally agree that the JSR process is horrid. However, Wicket could really >> use some more corporate credibility (which a JSR would provide). >> The problem, I guess is that there are simply no corporate interests behind >> Wicket that would push the agenda. What wicket need is some evangelism, but >> I guess all the core people have real jobs. What we need is less talks >> titled "why wicket is cool" and more "cut your development costs in two with >> Wicket". From experience, I am totally convinced that you can save 50% off >> your development costs if you switch to wicket (from just about any other >> framework), however, I've yet to find a contracting job here in Zürich where >> wicket is asked for (it's JSF, or even Struts). >> >> Thomas >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Johan Compagner <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> And then come into the horrible voting/administive stuff? Long Release >>> cycles that are controlled, features that are discussed over and over. >>> >>> Hmm >>> >>> On 12/02/2009, Hoover, William <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Just out of curiosity... Are there any plans to push a JSR that >>> > Wicket could follow. I think there would be a lot more acceptance of >>> > Wicket if this was to happen :o) >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>> > On Behalf Of Martijn Dashorst >>> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:33 PM >>> > To: [email protected] >>> > Subject: Wicket at ApacheCon EU'09 in Amsterdam >>> > >>> > We're happy to announce a lot of Wicket involvement at the upcoming >>> > ApacheCon in Amsterdam (23-27 March 2009) >>> > >>> > First of all we have 2 training sessions available: >>> > - Introduction to Wicket by Martijn Dashorst on Mon 23 March >>> > (http://tinyurl.com/aceu09wicket1) >>> > - Behavior-Driving Your Apache Wicket Application by Timo >>> > Rantalaiho on Tue 24 March (http://tinyurl.com/aceu09wicket2) >>> > >>> > Both courses are hosted by core members. Martijn has co-authored >>> > Wicket in Action and Timo has been involved with WicketTester and >>> > JDave. There is no better team to get you and your team up to speed >>> > with the finest Java web framework available and start cranking out >>> > fully tested applications. >>> > >>> > Martijn will also present Wicket in Action during the normal >>> > conference days. A quick introduction to Wicket's core features in just >>> > one hour. >>> > But attending the conference will give you much more: >>> > over 60 sessions covering your favorite Apache projects. >>> > >>> > Amsterdam is great, but Wicket meetups in Amsterdam are even better! >>> > We're attempting to schedule a Wicket meetup during the conference >>> > at the conference floor. Details will follow soon. >>> > >>> > Read more about ApacheCon EU 2009 here: >>> > http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/ >>> > >>> > See you in Amsterdam! >>> > >>> > Martijn >>> > >>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > - 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] >>> > >>> > >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mäder >> Wicket & Eclipse Consulting >> www.devotek-it.ch >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > -- Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com Apache Wicket 1.3.5 is released Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
