Wicket

Java is not doomed—Myths EXPOSED! ;) Scala looks great. I’m not as disillusioned with Java as some people seem to be, but I do regularly bump my head against it’s limitations, and often wish for being able to express the same things in a more compact fashion. Scala looks like a language to love. Compact, type-safe [...]

Say that in general your session time out works fine for you, but you have a couple of screens where you expect that users might hang around a bit longer than that. For instance on a page where people can submit their Resumes. A good solution is to do what gmail or wordpress do: save drafts [...]

For those of you following Terracotta, it’s old news. But configuring Wicket to be used with Terracotta is as easy as putting this in your Terracotta configuration: ... MyApplication [...]

Grails just released their 0.5.5 release. I have never played with Grails myself, but I hope I get bonus points for having a book about it :) It is interesting Grails supports Wicket as a plugin. There is a big warning on the plugin page that says it doesn’t work with the Grails URL mapping mechanism. [...]

Yesterday I got an email telling me I could start playing around with Thoof, the project Jonathan has been working on the last couple of months. It already got a couple of reviews, of which the one on VentureBeat was imho the most interesting, as it talks about the technology aspects rather then just the [...]

Pfew, it’s been forever since we started writing Wicket In Action. It has been, well… a bumpy road. Let me not complain too much, but just state that having a demanding full time job, supporting a popular web framework, moving to another country, visiting conferences, preperaring a wedding, having a life AND writing a book [...]

While on vacation in The Netherlands last month, we met with one of my best friends, Ray Joel. We know each other from our home town, where we used to play in a band together, but we lost touch for a couple of years. In those years he went from leading a white goods store, [...]

Terracotta added (or re-added?) a feature that lets you define classes to be instrumented including all their sub types. This makes configuring Wicket applications with Terracotta a lot easier, especially now that we introduced a tagging interface ... [More] IClusterable for this purpose. Many thanks to Eugene Kuleshov, who implemented this feature and tested it with Wicket. [...] [Less]

I am shocked that someone is actually proposing to go back to simply servlets for creating web applications. JSP has it’s share of problems (one of the reasons why Wicket was started), though the JSP team fixed some of it’s most urgent problems in ... [More] the last few years. However, proposing something like: if ("true".equals(request.getAttribute(P_SUCCESS))) out.printDIV("smallHeading", [...] [Less]

Matej just committed a nice optimization for packaged Javascript references. We already compressed them, like we do with CSS references, but now, if you’re in deployment (production) mode, Wicket will also strip comments and some whitespace on the ... [More] fly. Of course, the results of the compression and stripping are cached (soft references) so we’ll keep [...] [Less]