Comments on Java Thoughts: A Year of Wicket

Nani, you cannot use Swing components with html. W...

2012-01-02T10:19:48.815-08:00

Nani, you cannot use Swing components with html. Wicket components are replacements for Swing components.

hi can i add swing componet to html panel pls show...

2012-01-02T09:42:45.183-08:00

hi can i add swing componet to html panel pls show me how

Nachiket,

I think spending time on everythi...

2008-11-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

Nachiket,

I think spending time on everything that makes you a better/ more broadly oriented programmer helps.

Hello,
I am java programmer from India having 1...

2008-11-28T09:51:00.000-08:00

Hello,
I am java programmer from India having 1.5 yrs. of experience in core java + swing + java 3d.

I liked wicket for many reason, mainly no compromise on OO side.

I studied wicked and loved it. But not having experience.

Anyways,
Whats your thought on job marked for Wicket framework,

Because, i am not having good job right now, and want to get it, so does Wicket worth it(i mean spending time on it)???

All well said. We have been developing application...

2008-02-07T01:22:00.000-08:00

All well said. We have been developing applications using wicket since June 2006 and are extremely happy. However, having decided to shift to 1.3, the jasper reports integration with wicket does not work. Result - Our reports using Jasper dont work in wicket 1.3

Anybody willing to help??

Igor: thanks for the tip. I didn't know about IDeb...

2008-01-21T09:57:00.000-08:00

Igor: thanks for the tip. I didn't know about IDebugSettings.

Buddy: unfortunately I'm no expert on Tapestry and my experience is limited to what I said in the piece. But the summary is that I find the way the code ends up looking in Wicket is more rational to me, in that it's strictly component-based, and all the action takes place in the code, whereas with Tapestry there's still code that ends up in the markup.

Very interesting post indeed. Thanks a lot for sha...

2008-01-19T02:33:00.000-08:00

Very interesting post indeed. Thanks a lot for sharing and thanks for the ideas you bring.

Nice roundup. Since you also tried Tapestry, I'm e...

2008-01-18T14:04:00.000-08:00

Nice roundup. Since you also tried Tapestry, I'm especially interested in a comparison with Wicket. Both frameworks look promising, and I don't know which one to pick.

Not considering the fact that Tapestry 5 is still pretty immature, which one is better and why?

Great post. It is great to see that you/ your team...

2008-01-18T14:00:00.000-08:00

Great post. It is great to see that you/ your team 'gets' developing custom components. A very good way of using Wicket is to view components as building blocks you can use to create your own DSL (well, it's not really a language of course, but I hope you get my point). How you build up a custom form to encapsulate your common case is an excellent example of that!

hi julian, congratulations, nice summary! btw. i t...

2008-01-18T03:27:00.000-08:00

hi julian, congratulations, nice summary! btw. i think the fragment constructor got deprecated as the fragment's markup sometimes couldn't be found, especially when you use nested panels containing fragments. i ran into this problem once :-)

> Jonathan, here's an example of an error m...

2008-01-17T20:07:00.000-08:00

> Jonathan, here's an example of an error message that isn't helpful, the real problem being that not a single call in the stack trace goes through my code

Ofcourse not every error will include at least one frame from your code. Some errors simply happen later. In this case: you define the component hierarchy, later Wicket iterates through it as it renders. It is during this rendering process that you get this error - none of your code is actually executing.

Anyways...
See IDebugSettings#setLinePreciseReportingOnAddComponentEnabled(boolean)
and
IDebugSettings#setLinePreciseReportingOnNewComponentEnabled(boolean)

You get a hold of those by calling getDebugSettings() in your MyApplication.init() method.

That will enable the recording and display of the stack trace of the offending line in YOUR code. These settings are disabled by default because they cause a significant performance hit.

Yeah, JIRA that. Particularly if it's a common er...

2008-01-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

Yeah, JIRA that. Particularly if it's a common error. There should be at least something we can do to improve that.

Konstantin, I've been meaning to look into Ivy. Th...

2008-01-17T17:33:00.000-08:00

Konstantin, I've been meaning to look into Ivy. Thanks for the push!

Jonathan, here's an example of an error message th...

2008-01-17T17:32:00.000-08:00

Jonathan, here's an example of an error message that isn't helpful, the real problem being that not a single call in the stack trace goes through my code:

org.apache.wicket.WicketRuntimeException: component mybody:form:myform:myformfields:0:tablerowfragment:tablerowcolumnfragment1:fieldfragment:myformfield not found on page com.my.pages.key.AddEditKeyGroupPage[id = 15], listener interface = [RequestListenerInterface name=IBehaviorListener, method=public abstract void org.apache.wicket.behavior.IBehaviorListener.onRequest()]
at org.apache.wicket.request.AbstractRequestCycleProcessor.resolveListenerInterfaceTarget(AbstractRequestCycleProcessor.java:411)
...

Thanks for sharing your experience.

On the ...

2008-01-17T17:09:00.000-08:00

Thanks for sharing your experience.

On the dependency management - why do not you use Ivy and leave Maven nightmares behind?

Cool! If you have any specific suggestion or prob...

2008-01-17T16:54:00.000-08:00

Cool! If you have any specific suggestion or problem regarding errors (I don't have this problem myself ;-)), can you open JIRA issue(s)?