Hi John, John Krasnay wrote: > Amongst Wicket's many advantages, the following stand out for me: > > - The ability to encapsulate UI components, including all required > markup, CSS, Javascript, and localization files, into shared JARs on > the classpath. Having a shared component library is key to our team, > since we tend to develop many small Web apps. > > - The ability to aggregate smaller components into larger and more > complex ones. This allows us to create much richer pages, since we can > think at an appropriate level of abstraction: I can just throw our > standard page banner component on a page without thinking about the > fact that it contains a logo, the app title, and a list of global > navigation links. (In fact, it's even simpler than that. The banner is > added by the base page that each app page extends.) > > - The fact that the same principles of a component tree and markup > inheritance work from the smallest components right up to the entire > page. This is very different from most Model2 frameworks, where you > need something like SiteMesh or Tiles to add common banners and > navbars to pages, and from JSF, where the internal structure of > components is very different that the way they are composed into > pages. >
I agree with you that these are some of the strongest benefits of Wicket. In my experience these facts were seen as a disadvantage... and I am still trying to figure out why? My group is a very strong OOP group yet the fully contained component advantage of Wicket was not appealing. The only reason I can find for these irrational conclusion is that the Model 2 frameworks out there have defined themselves as THE proper web implementation of MVC. Furthermore, our need for web-apps are peripheral to our main business. We typically need to put together many small support web-applications. so, Having a re-usabble set of components which require zero-config would have been a great advantage. florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
