Dan Gould wrote:

Two things:

1) I'm adding some stuff to the Wiki. So far only some info on the wicket
tags and attributes, but there's more to come (I'm keeping notes).
However, I'm only a beginner, so I'd greatly appreciate it if someone
experienced looked things over to make sure I'm not giving out false
information.


Having a beginners perspective is very good. We'll monitor your progress though ;-) We're glad you're on board, and we hope you will have lots of fun using Wicket.

2) I want to use Hibernate with my app.  It looks like there are two ways
to go about this:

- Use the wicket-contrib-data-hibernate-3.0 package
or
- Use the wicket-contrib-spring package. Apparently Spring wraps a
bunch of the Hibernate stuff so it can be used automatically.


Of course the Spring people will tell you to use the Spring integration. But I haven't used Spring yet, and I constantly see a lot of XML configuration flying around. Wicket is about removing the need for external configuration as much as possible, so:

My initial advice is to stick with the hibernate package. Especially if you need to learn Wicket, Hibernate and Spring. Learning 3 things at a time is probably too much ;-). You'll end up in configuration hell. For a good example of Hibernate development, you may want to take a look at the CD App example. This project shows some ways to use and configure Hibernate. It is also a great project to start your own development with.

The hibernate packages aren't /too/ extensive, so you may find several things lacking as you start building your own applications. Perhaps you can add feature requests on the wicket-stuff project for the Hibernate projects. Maybe even implement them? :-)

Thanks again for helping us out!

Martijn Dashorst



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