There are other WO developers better suited to answer those question. I'm cross posting to webobjects-talk and hope someone will pick up the thread.
/Anders Igor Vaynberg wrote: > I guess i would be interested in knowing how web objects stores state > and how the back button is handled. > > is the state stored like tapestry - disjointed from the components? > > do components have to be beans? > > does it store undo history to handle the back button somewhere when the > state is stored serverside in session and not in urls? > > what drew me to wicket and away from tapestry were the following things: > > in wicket i could have very dynamic component hierarchies. i can take > any panel and switch it with any other panel, move components around, > etc. in tapestry the hierarchy is pretty much fixed from the creation of > the page because of how it defines, pools, and handles state. > > in wicket i can use good citizen pattern with constructors and have > private/protected final variables because wicket is unmanaged and so > components dont have to be beans. in tapestry components have to be > beans so none of these are possible. also to have your state persisted > you have to have your getters/setters abstract and declared (at least as > of a late 3.x). > > wicket keeps undo history so it can restore the proper state when the > back button is used. when you use tapestry you are pretty much on your > own when you use session scope. > > i tried to look for this stuff in wo docs but couldnt really find > anything useful. > > -Igor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
