As a fairly new Wicket user, I find it moderately difficult and confusing to find out what libraries/toolkits/frameworks/components/ide pluins/etc. are available. There doesn't seem to be a central comprehensive list that is regularly maintained. I feel like I have to look in several places, or do a Google search, to find something I'm looking for.
Fortunately, the wicketframework.org URL now redirects you to wicket.apache.org, and the wicket.apache.org site now has a page that lists the built in components (having to refer to wicketframework.org for a list of components used to be misleading). The wicket.apache.org site has some useful links, like the "More Goodies..." page, however, there are some things I believe make life moderately difficult/confusing for newbies. * I'm not sure I understand why wicket-extensions has to be treated as "extensions". Maybe it's just the name "extension", but it seems like an integral part of Wicket to me. Isn't it maintained by the core Wicket contributors? If so, then why is it categorized along with projects that are maintained outside of the Apacke Wicket Subversion repo, like wicket-stuff? I *can* appreciate that it's packaged as a separate JAR so you can choose not to include it if you don't need it (which is *not* be the case for me, and I imagine most users). However, the Spring framework, for example, has many projects that are packaged in separate JARs, but they aren't categorized as "third-party". * The "Getting Wicket" page of wicket.apache.org has information on how to specify the core Wicket dependency in Maven2, however the wicket-extensions documentation has no such information for that dependency. I know this isn't hard to figure out, but providing this information would make things clearer for newbies to Wicket and Maven2. Overall, having a page that describes what all the artifacts on the Maven2 repo ( http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/wicket/) are for, which ones are deprecated, etc., would be helpful. * Due to the popularity of IoC containers, I think it would be worthwhile to reference the Wicket/Spring and Wicket/Guice integration on the wicket.apache.org site, thereby making it obvious to newbies that it's supported. Also, it seems to me that in 1.4, wicket-spring-annot is not required, only wicket-spring, which is not noted in the documentation. * I think the home page for wicketstuff.org should make it more obvious that a list of the projects can be found on the wicketstuff wiki. Also, I believe many developers today, when evaluating a framework, base their decision partially on how comprehensive is the web page widget support, simply because they don't want to have to do more work than necessary. The wicketstuff.org site, for a newbie, has an impression of being only occasionally maintained, leaving you thinking the widgets there are *not* something you want to use in your professional application, and that the number of widgets (components) in Wicket is not that comprehensive. Wicket would benefit by expanding the number of components that are under the umbrella of the core Wicket project, and not so much "third-party". * The table of "Other projects related to Wicket" on the Wicket wiki (linked to from the "More Goodies" page of wicket.apache.org) doesn't appear to be maintained regularly (e.g., Wicket Tools doesn't seem to exist anymore) and doesn't include many of the projects I see mentioned on this user list, such as the one this email thread is about, or wicketopia or wicket RAD. These are just my 2 cents. I like the Wicket project, appreciate the work that has been put into it, and want to see it have great success. I'm willing to contribute in any way that I can help. -Richard On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:33 AM, nino martinez wael < [email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/18 Patrick A. <[email protected]> > > > > > Hey Nino, > > > > Apptizer is not really a framework. It's more like AppFuse or Qwicket in > > spirit... with the goal of showing how Spring, Hibernate/JPA and Wicket > > integrate. The CRUD framework in there is not meant to be integral. In > > fact, > > the CRUD framework is designed to be disposable. > > Ahh so it might be something like my Iolite.. > > > > > > > I've only heard of Wicketopia incidentally, probably on IRC. I checked > the > > project page and it was the standard mvn generated site with no > information > > or description of the project, so I tuned it out. > > Good point, i'll take it up with James, we might need some love on the > PR... > > > > > > > > I do agree that there's a number of Wicket-based RAD frameworks out there > > that could benefit from consolidation. > > > > I'd be willing to pitch in. > > Great, I think you should write to James to get setup he is the project > lead > ( > ♫ > [email protected] ).. In the mean time the svn url are : > http://wicketopia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicketopia/trunk > > > > > > > > > Nino Martinez-2 wrote: > > > > > > I wish that some of these frameworks would join existing ones.. To put > > > more > > > momentum in those.. > > > > > > I know we would be happy to have more people on wicketopia, which does > > > something similar.. > > > > > > regards Nino > > > > > > 2009/2/18 Patrick Angeles <[email protected]> > > > > > >> > > >> For anyone interested, I've made public yet another quick start > > >> application > > >> that brings together Wicket, Spring 2.5 and Hibernate. > > >> > > >> The app features a basic CRUD framework based on wicketstuff-crud. The > > >> CRUD > > >> framework uses bean annotations to define CRUD properties. It also > uses > > >> the > > >> excellent InMethod Grid component for the list view. > > >> > > >> Link: > > >> > > >> http://apptizer.googlecode.com/ > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> - P > > >> -- > > >> View this message in context: > > >> > > > http://www.nabble.com/Yet-another-Wicket-quick-start-application...-tp22068362p22068362.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] > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://www.nabble.com/Yet-another-Wicket-quick-start-application...-tp22068362p22075174.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] > > > > >
