On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Eric Kizaki <erickiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > LOL! You know Eleco Hilenius wrote the “Wicket in Action” book? For some > reason I can't stop laughing. Now everyone is going to think you are a > badass at work. The book is decent, but it would be nice if the next > edition would have a chapter at the end that rewrites the “Cheese Store” > into “Cheese Store 2.0,” using all the advanced stuff that was explained in > the latter chapters. It would help Wicket newcomers like me. It would also > show how to do a real app with best-practices.
Please note that this is not in any way a promise, suggestion or even feeble flimsy tiny shred of evidence that there will be a second edition–given our experiences writing edition one. The problem is that such a thing will increase the weight of the book considerably. What we strived to do was to keep the book under/at about 350 pages. Hibernate in Action (the first edition) had about the right size in our mind. Making a Spring in Action/Java Persistence with Hibernate type of book would kill too many trees and break too many backs. I don't know about you, but the high school years of tugging along kilos of books are way behind me, and I don't look back with fond memories to those days. The whole idea of Wicket in Action (and in my opinion of the whole "in Action" series) is that you are empowered to figure out stuff on your own when you have completed the book. I can give you a fish or I can teach you how to fish. We strived for the latter given 350 pages. Yes, you will make mistakes. But don't think of those as mistakes but learning experiences. The cheese store holds your hand while taking the baby steps. From there you should be able to go at it with the guidance of the latter chapters. IMO the book would suffer from adding such a chapter at the end. Kind of like those movies where they explain the whole plot to the audience. And as for your original post, while the wording was not very friendly, I appreciate it that you took the effort to write it, and even more so that you stick around to answer questions, remarks and engage in discussion. Kudos! Martijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
