I really like the idea of being able to look at a component on itself. Bit like a bean edit panel.
Eelco On 8/24/05, Joni Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > ------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
