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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
