Wicket

Igor had a good idea, which was to implement the date picker as a behavior rather than a component. This makes it a lot nicer to use. Instead of instantiating it with the target field: add(new DatePicker("datePicker", dateTextField); and having to ... [More] have it defined in your markup: you can now simply do: dateTextField.add(new DatePicker()); Thanks for the idea [...] [Less]

Those of you following the developer list may already have noticed it, but this weekend I added a new core project to our repository: wicket-datetime. The motivation behind this project is the fact that dealing with the normal date API in the JDK finally drove me insane, and that for the project I’m working on we [...]

There is none. Jonathan Locke (the guy who started Wicket) did not storm into a meeting one day, screaming “we’re going to sink Howard Lewis’ ship” and then ran off to work on his evil replacement of Tapestry. Just about every thread on Tapestry or Wicket on The Server Side or JavaLobby degenerates in a mud [...]

Openlogic contacted me the other day with the question whether I was interested to join their Expert Community for JettyLauncher (Eclipse plugin for Jetty). I am not tbh, as I can use every spare minute to work on Teachscape, Wicket, Wicket In Action and maybe even some of the stuff other mortals do in their private [...]

It’s old news by now, but last december Terracotta went open source. Great stuff! Terracotta takes a novel approach in clustering in that it provides ‘transparent’ clustering on the JVM level. You can - within some practical limits - cluster anything without needing specific support for it. You don’t need to install a servlet container [...]

An often asked question is how to show a confirmation dialog before ‘comitting’ a link. The easiest way to do that is something like this: Link remove = new Link("removeFieldLink") { @Override public void onClick() { FieldDefinition ... [More] definition = (FieldDefinition) item.getModelObject(); programService.deleteFieldDefinition(definition); } }; remove.add(new SimpleAttributeModifier( [...] [Less]