You probably shouldn't base your evaluation of a book on how good any specific topic is explained there, unless this specific topic is one and the only thing you are interested in. You will most probably still have to spend some time researching whatever you're insterested in on the web. Still, Wicket in Action is afaik the most recent piece, and certainly comes from the most experienced in Wicket authors, which is good regardless of what solutions you're going to use for your business layer.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:42 PM, David Brown <dbr...@sexingtechnologies.com> wrote: > Hello Wicketers, I am in the throes of a decision to buy the Wicket in Action > book. There are a couple of other books but the little time I have lurked on > this ML I have noticed the Wicket-in-Action authors are fielding some of the > issues on this list. The reason I need to hit Wicket as hard as I can is I > have already dismissed 3 other MVC frameworks that I have evaluated over the > past two weeks. I have also evaluated 3 end-to-end MVC frameworks based on > Wicket. End-to-end means: (HTML UI)(Java POJO > middleware)(Hibernate|iBatis)(MySQL). I have dismissed all of the so-called > end-to-end MVC frameworks except: databinder.net. The databinder.net > framework is a great piece of software based entirely on Wicket and > Hibernate. The only caveat is databinder.net appears to no longer enjoy a > community type support. And, in fact, databinder.net does not seem to be > supported in any way including the original author. So, betting the farm on > databinder.net is problematic and this brings us to the question of: does the > Wicket in Action book (or any Wicket book) discuss the coupling together of > Wicket and something like Hibernate or iBatis to a restructured database for > the purposes of rewriting an existing web app. The current web app run-time > for the company I am working for was written using a code-generator. The name > of the code-generator referenced in the previous sentence is not known. The > original programmer that authored the original run-time web app has > flown-the-coop. Rants and Raves welcomed. Please advise, David. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- sp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
