Might be a dumb question, but why not make your wicket front end use the JAX-WS services as well?
Martijn On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Christopher L Merrill <ch...@webperformance.com> wrote: > I've got a few questions that are somewhat general to web development, > but since we've chosen Wicket as one of our front-end frameworks, I > thought I would ask here first for pointers...especially where there > may be a "wicket way" of doing things that we need to be aware of. > > The system we're developing will have 2 UIs - a browser-based UI > developed in Wicket and an Eclipse-based rich-client app (Java). The > available functionality will be a little different in each but with a > good bit of overlap. There must be common authentication - a user > might use either UI or both at any given time. We'll likely be using > JAX-WS for communicating between the rich client and server. The server > will be Tomcat. > > We obviously need to keep very good separation between the business logic > and presentation layers, since there will be 2 presentation layers :> > > 1) We need to have an "application" object/singleton to hold things > like "online/offline" mode - so we can, for example, bring the application > down for maintenance and give the user an intelligent response. In > Wicket, I think that would be the Application object? I assume we'll > need to make that reference a MyApplication object - how do I expose > that to both Wicket and the WS APIs? JNDI? > > 2) We'll want our database connection pools to also be shared...one > of the databases is an odd-ball - Filemaker (groan) - and I'm not sure > how to pool connections for it and share the pool between the Wicket > app and the WS APIs? When I've used connection pools in the past, > it has always been something common, like MySQL, so the Tomcat configuration > was pretty well-documented. I'm not sure where to start with this one? > > 3) Any other architecture issues I should be thinking about? Pointers? > Good articles that might address some of these issues? > > Thanks in advance! > Chris > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Chris Merrill | Web Performance, Inc. > ch...@webperformance.com | http://webperformance.com > 919-433-1762 | 919-845-7601 > > Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software & Services > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- 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: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
