Hi All, I was one of the early users of Wicket before 1.0. I did a lot of work to use Wicket with my JDO implementation JDOMax (no longer supported). In the process I learned a lot about why it is harder than it has to be to use many ORM frameworks with Wicket and Tapestry.
I'm a member of JSR 243 Java Data Objects Experts Group, and I advocated hard within that spec for the "fixing" of the JDO spec with regard to non-transaction-write behavior, along with Eric Samson and others. The JDO group was receptive, having gotten similar feedback from Howard Lewis Ship of Tapestry. I believe this change will benefit Wicket users, and make it much easier to use JDO 2.0 than JDO 1.1, from Wicket. However, I still wasn't satisfied that it was "easy" to do ORM from Wicket or Tapestry. So I started a new project, based on what I learned -- it's a better way to do ORM -- I call it Shades. Following the wicket style,Shades works without any XML configuration. Rather than make this any longer-winded, I thought I would just begin passing back some code, showing the Library sample application using Shades. The attached zipfile is just the "library" folder from the wicket sample applications. EditBook.java and LibrarySession.java have been altered to use Shades for database access. LibraryORMDictionary.java is the only new file required. Please let me know what you think. Also, I do not have a website for Shades yet but I hope to find the right venue for open sourcing the code soon. (see attached zip file 'library.zippo' with library-example directory)
library.zippo
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