Hi,
I was thinking that more option can be added to the official wicket-spring
integration documentation. Something like this:
1) normal wicket servlet config in web.xml, with applicationClassName
init-param
2) Application class uses Spring API to get hold of dependency like this:
class MyApplication extends WebApplication {
private ContactDao dao;
public ContactDao getContactDao() { return dao; }
public void init() {
ServletContext sc = getWicketServlet().getServletContext();
dao = (ContactDao)
WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext
(sc).getBean("contactDao");
}
}
3) Have all pages / components extend BasePage that has a getContactDao()
method - exactly like the first option in the wicket-spring wiki
documentation here: http://www.wicket-wiki.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Spring
I understand the risk of running into the serialization problem and also
that this may be considered not-so-elegant because of using the Spring API
directly without any dependency injection. But I want to mention my
experience, I spent a lot of time going through the existing documentation
agonizing over which option to choose. Trying to understand all the
options, lazy proxies etc was a little daunting for a spring fan like me.
In my case I just have one clean dependency and finally it was so easy to do
it as suggested above. I also don't need the wicket-spring jar at all. Are
there any other compelling reasons for using the wicket-spring lib? Is the
suggested approach fine for small projects who want to hook into Spring
quickly?
Another thing - I initially tried to use wicket-spring-annot and Maven 2
complained with this error:
========
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
GroupId: wicket
ArtifactId: wicket-parent
Version: 1.2-SNAPSHOT
Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
wicket:wicket-parent:pom:1.2-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
central ( http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
=========
I think the reason is because the wicket-spring-annot-1.2.4.pom incorrectly
refers to 1.2-SNAPSHOT version for wicket-parent. The url of the offending
file in the maven repository is this:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/wicket/wicket-spring-annot/1.2.4/wicket-spring-annot-1.2.4.pom
Let me know if I need to log an issue or something.
Thanks,
Peter.
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