On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:44 -0500, Jonathan Carlson wrote: > I'm sorry for the stupid question. Feel free to ignore it. I'm trying > to monitor the list and do real work at the same time. (Wicket is my > off-hours passion)
No, problem at all, Wicket is currently my off-hours passion too. Hopefully I can use it in a commercial project when we get the currently developed one to production. > I'm curious. What does it do? Simply put, it just allows you to deploy Wicket components quickly from Eclipse. It requires a JUnit test case, though. The test case is serving as a launcher which means that the test fixture and all other test artifacts (mocks etc.) are readily available in launched application. Motivation for this kind of (experimental) plugin came while doing current project (sadly done with Tapestry, we did not have courage to start with Wicket 0.9 ;). The project is quite large, having more than 200 custom web components and more that 100 web pages. It has more than 50 Hibernate mapping files so even while we use pretty lightweight containers (Tomcat and Spring), the system takes about 20 seconds to boot up. A typical development cycle (while coding ui) consists of following steps: 1. Hot deploy the web app (~15 - 30 s) 2. Run acceptance test fixture in (~5 - 10 s) 3. Navigate to the page where your component is (~5 - 10 s) And web UI coding tends to require repeated cycles like that. It would be much more productive and fun if this 25 - 50 second cycle could be shortened close to 2 seconds. One of the things which attracts me in Wicket is that its mostly pure Java, making it very easy to practice Test Driven Development (this attribute is not common when comparing web ui frameworks). I do not consider a component to be ready unless it has at least moderately good tests. So, this plugin allows me to reuse the investments made into test cases. -- Joni Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-08-23 3:17:37 PM >>> > Hi, > > I just created an experimental Wicket Eclipse plugin. Please check it > out and see if it interests you. Installation instructions and a short > description can be found from: > > http://www.laughingpanda.org/mediawiki/index.php/Wicket_Bench > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
