Have you considered Google Web Toolkit (GWT)?

J.D.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lester Chua [mailto:cicowic...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 5:44 PM
To: users@wicket.apache.org
Subject: Help with Wicket Adoption Numbers

Hi,

I am facing a hurdle that need crossing in my final attempt to push 
Wicket for use in an organization.
I have:

1) Prototyped a small size module
2) Did 2-3 presentations on the key features and advantages of wicket

No one is disputing my claims about productivity and good OO code that 
was the result.

BUT, the technology evaluation committee is NOT recommending Wicket 
because of..... of all things.....
- Wicket's Low Adoption Rate!!!!
Can I find any numbers to blow this away?

My alternative is to accept the finding and work with Struts 2. Which 
will mean the stack will need to expand to DWR
 (for security). I REALLY don't want to go there, and am even 
considering not taking part in this project due to the high risk 
involved, only 9 months to introduce huge changes to a system that has 
lots of legacy problems (took about 3 years to build). I think a lot of 
those years were spent wrestling with the monster that is EJB 1.1. The 
only way I thought the project can even be on time is to scrap the 
entire presentation layer (aka Struts) and redo it in Wicket with 1 
dedicated developer while the rest of the team work on killing the beast

that is EJB 1.1 by refactoring the biz code.

Sigh, my choices are stark. It's either to keep the job and plough ahead

and probably fail spectacularly 9 months later or go hungry and explain 
to my wife why we need to spend less on the kid......

It's easy to blame the tech committee but they did help me find wicket 
by rejecting my initial proposal to build the new system on a 
(JQuery+JSON+REST) framework, which can be very productive as well, if 
not as "clean" as Wicket.

Sorry for rambling so much. Is there any way I can demolish the silly 
low adoption rate argument (omg I still don't believe it can be so
lame)?

Lester



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