Hi Martijn Yes, I am using Wicket professionally. Up to now, our company have been using Struts for several pretty big applications. Maintenance is a pain. For future products I have decided to use Wicket and Hibernate. I have tried to get up to speed in Tapestry, but there is something there that just doesn't feel right - the XML part. Wicket feels right and I have built two applications with it, both for internal use in our company. Recently, we hired Frank Bengtsson for a new project as an external consultant and I forced him to use Wicket as well ;) You may have seen his name recently on this list. He is very enthusiatic about working with Wicket :)
One of the applications I built took off from the CD application example (i.e. it uses Hibernate). I think the code is a bit verbose, as has already been discussed on this list. Phil Kulak has had a go at improving it. That looks really nice but I haven't had a chance to incorporate his patterns in my code. I think the following would be important aspects in the short term: Technology: - Investigations into "Wicket-on-rails" - Ajax of course Maybe more import - availability: - More components (even though Tapestry is an older project, Wicket has the opportunity to make more components available to developers. The Tapestry guys made this Tacos project for components. I don't think it ever offered any components at all.) - More "how-to" documentation, on components as well as the framework. The documentation on Model is a great example. That is good stuff. - I think it would be a good idea to write a how-to document for Struts programmers. The equivalent of logic:iterate in Wicket is.... Oh, by the way. I have suggested to the organizers of the JAOO conference (Aarhus, Denmark, september) that you guys be invited. I haven't got a response yet, but if you are interested, check out www.jaoo.dk. Jan Mikkelsen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
