On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Emmanouil Batsis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have to agree with Maarten on points; without more documentation,
> prospective users will just dismiss this shortly after visitinga couple of
> webpages. Some questions:
>

I appreciate you guys taking the time to give feedback.  Please keep
in mind, though, that this has been a one man show and this one man
has three kids and a full-time job. :)  I'm definitely planning on
improving the documentation, but my priority is to add features that
help me in my day-to-day work.  This project is very young as far as
being out there in front of folks, but it's been something that I've
been working on for quite some time in my very limited spare time.

>  - Does this offer static scaffolding (e.g. build time) or runtime? Are
> templating mechanisms available?
>

The built-in scaffolding (which I wrote in one evening the other
night) is all runtime-generated.  Right now, there is no capability
for generating source code.

>  - What are the tier tyes covered? Wicket is in there, but how about
> business and persistance components (e.g. EJB)
>

Wicketopia's primary focus is on generating viewers/editors for
objects.  So, it doesn't really care how you get those objects or how
(or if) you save them.  There is currently a Hibernate integration
module.  There is also a Spring Security integration (written last
night in about 30 minutes) which allows you to hide/show (or require
or disable) properties based on user roles.

>  - Is there a howto for what appears to be a sample app? What does the
> sample app include?
>

Right now the sample app only includes a scaffolding example.  The
information on the site came from the example.

> I did md4j [1] about five years ago; it was a similar concept, only for
> Struts1/JSP2/EJB2/Hibernate. It saved man-months in my teams, but people
> outside those never got it since we never made it easy documentation-wise.
> Eventually we left it behind and never got the chance to write something
> similar using more current components. Wicketopia could be usefull, maybe
> even to the point of us making contributions, but you really need more
> documentation!
>

Thank you for the advice and any contributions would be welcomed.
There is plenty of room for improvement and I'll just continue along
improving it based on my current needs.

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