A New Home for Wicket Stuff
January 21st, 2007
Wicket Stuff, a collection of contributed components and tools for Wicket, now has a new home. You can find it at http://wicketstuff.org.
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Another Wicket Article
January 10th, 2007
Tim O’Brien, over at OnJava.com, penned a fairly balanced piece on Wicket. I had most of his frustrations when I started using Wicket about 8-10 months ago. The learning curve is steep. Is it worth it? I believe so.
One thing Tim didn’t really mention is controlling code explosion with OO. With markup inheritance as well as class inheritance, you don’t need lots of little classes.
He did point out Wicket-Stuff and Wicket-Extensions, both excellent projects. Wicket-Stuff is for third-party contributions like IDE plugins or components linking to an API other than Wicket, like the Yahoo! Color Chooser or Google Maps component. Wicket-Extensions is a collection of Apache-licensed components that extends or enhance the core Wicket components. An excellent example of Wicket-Extensions is the DataTable.
Of course, the other issue I have to disagree with is Tapestry being the “correct” way to build web apps. 