Great, I think Riyad just put up a blog post on this.  Here's the DZone link
;)

http://www.dzone.com/links/apache_wicket_powers_mobilewalmartcom.html

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Joachim F. Kainz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Riyad,
>
> Yes, please go ahead and share this information.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joachim
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:50 -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote:
>
> > Joachim,
> >
> > Very very cool info. A few days ago folks were talking about slides for
> > "convincing management of Wicket" and trying to create some common slides
> > for folks to utilize -- information like *this* (Walmart, Wells Fargo) is
> a
> > gold-mine for those business cases for Wicket.
> >
> > Would it be alright with you if that info (that wicket was deployed on
> those
> > two mobile sites) were shared in that slide set or by people trying to
> make
> > cases for Wicket in their workplace? (I assume yes since this is a public
> > mailing list, but want to make sure)
> >
> > Best,
> > Riyad
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Joachim F. Kainz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to get authorization to share this information.
> > >
> > > Let me put it this way: I have also create mobile.wellsfargo.com(Wells
> > > is one of the top three banks in the US).  The first hour of operation
> > > of mobile.walmart.com we had significantly more traffic than during
> the
> > > first month of mobile.wellsfargo.com.
> > >
> > > I will be able to share some wicket-related profiling information, if
> > > people are interested. I should have very good data from product
> > > available in about a week from now.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 19:01 +0100, nino martinez wael wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nice.. Any load statistics? Would be nice with that kind of
> information..
> > > :)
> > > >
> > > > regards Nino
> > > >
> > > > 2010/2/22 Joachim F. Kainz <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > >  Fellow Wicket Users,
> > > > >
> > > > > The question if Wicket is suitable for large enterprises has just
> > > become
> > > > > easier to answer: The largest enterprise in the world is now using
> > > Wicket
> > > > > for its mobile site. Check out mobile.walmart.com (or just point
> your
> > > > > mobile phone to www.walmart.com and get redirected automatically).
> > > > >
> > > > > The reason why my client decided to go with Wicket makes it easy to
> > > support
> > > > > multiple different types of devices. The walmart mobile application
> > > supports
> > > > > different HTML for three categories of devices (L1: iPhones &
> > > challengers,
> > > > > L2: BlackBerries, L3: Plain Old Devices). These three experiences
> are
> > > > > supported by the same Java code on the server side.
> > > > >
> > > > > We added a few components to Wicket, mostly because in the retail
> arena
> > > > > being stateless is very important. Our components are available at
> > > > > http://code.google.com/p/jolira-tools/.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wicket is an awesome product and I would like to thank the Wicket
> team
> > > for
> > > > > all there work. One day I hope to get the largest enterprise in the
> > > world to
> > > > > donate an appropriate amount of money for future development!
> [image:
> > > :)]
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Joachim
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.jolira.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
>

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