-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wouldn't the imminent release of Wicket 1.5 warrant a second edition? It would be most welcome indeed :)
On 11/11/2010 1:00 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > You can download the first 4 chapters of EWDWW for free iirc, just as > you can download 3 WiA chapters (2 from the book, one as an extra). > Read those and see which writing style is more to your liking. > > As far as Wicket in Action is concerned: we tried to be as practical > as possible, and go in depth when necessary to explain the underlying > ideas. I think we got the balance right: enough code examples to try > out and see how things should be, but no listings that span for pages > without any explanation. Despite having to read WiA a couple of > hundred times while writing it, I still think it is a book I would > love to read if I wasn't one of the authors. > > As for 'missing' versioning in the ToC: we had to make choices in what > to discuss. Versioning is such a deep technical detail which both > Eelco and myself haven't had much to work with directly, that we > didn't want to include it. It would open up a can of worms and it > would be obsolete with Wicket 1.5 (which doesn't do versioning in the > same way). I see versioning in Wicket to be an implementation detail > not worth too much attention—until you run into a problem, and then > the user@ list is a much better resource than a book. > > Martijn > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Arjun Dhar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've been playing with Wicket for a while now and i think in certain areas >> (specially internal architecture) i need to still connect the dots at a >> larger scale so was researching books. >> >> "Wicket In Action" & "Enjoying Web Development with Wicket" seem to emerge. >> >> Wicket In Action --> Seems more conceptual (Deeper understanding) >> Enjoying Web Development with Wicket --> For practical programming and >> explaining existing components etc. >> >> Anyone who has read both? >> As a test I did not find the concept of "Versioning" mentioned in the TOC >> atleast. >> >> ..and how come Igor hasn't written a book?, his answers are never more than >> 2 lines (except when he is pissed off) heh :) >> >> .anyway I dont mind buying both but one has to also read them ;) [Phew i >> prefer to Hack and try] >> Any suggestions ? >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Need-Wicket-Book-tp1888069p3037727.html >> Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzb7IkACgkQ0e+uUuMKv40j7gCfToeyAh8XF9Y8qeML3kOlROdB 1K8An13k91EkdaxtIHIMRGVZDisMxNQL =XzRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
