Apache Wicket 1.4.1 released – supports Ajax file uploads

August 20, 2009

The awesome development team at Apache Wicket has just released it’s first maintenance release. Of note is the transparent support for file uploads when AJAX is being used. Wicket automatically submits the form using a hidden iframe rather than the standard
XMLHttpRequest
method.
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Wicket Tutorial: YUI AutoComplete using JSON and Ajax

August 12, 2009

A new step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate a Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) AutoComplete control with Wicket can be found here:
Wicket Tutorial: YUI AutoComplete using JSON and Ajax
It covers quite a few Wicket concepts, such as:

Creating a re-usable Wicket custom component
How to use a Wicket Ajax “Behavior”
Integrating a third party JavaScript widget into [...]

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A mailto behavior for your model

August 7, 2009

A great contribution from Vit Rozkovec gives us a Wicket Behavior that renders a mailto link for an email address based model.

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Mystic updates 5 Days of Wicket sample app to 1.4

July 31, 2009

We just finished up a little blog post talking about upgrading the sample app from 5 Days of Wicket to Wicket 1.4 which was just released. Learn about a simple conversion to 1.4 of MysticPaste.com on Mystic’s blog. We review some of our findings:

Generify everything for the most benefit
Deprecated classes now exist making [...]

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Wicket developers release Apache Wicket 1.4

July 30, 2009

The Wicket folks have released the latest incarnation of the framework in Apache Wicket 1.4. Notable improvements are:

Generified IModel interface and implementations increasing type safety in your Wicket applications
Component#getModel() and Component#setModel() have been renamed to getDefaultModel() and setDefaultModel() to better support generified models
The Spring modules have been merged (wicket-spring-annot is now obsolete, all you [...]

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The required jars to use Wicket

July 29, 2009

In Java land, we’ve become very familiar with jarhell, and the associated pain of trying to find every jar required for let’s say Hibernate. The pain involved in this process is greatly reduced by the use of something like Maven, and while the initial learning curve sucks, you get into a groove with it. [...]

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Using the AutoCompleteTextField component

July 29, 2009

Does your new Wicket app scream for needing a Google Suggest type component? AutoCompleteTextField in the wicket-extensions package is what you need to fill that void!

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DZone Refcard – Getting Started with Apache Wicket

July 27, 2009

A new refcard is available about Apache Wicket is available now. Download it from Mystic’s blog which has all the goodies waiting for you.

We’d love to hear about it, and suggestions for future refcardz about Wicket.

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Development and Deployment Mode- How to configure it

July 21, 2009

There are four supplied methods in the Wicket framework for changing your configuration from development to deployment and vice-versa. The two possible values for this configuration parameter is “development” or “deployment”.

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5 Days of Wicket – Introduction to Wicket Development

July 21, 2009

An introduction that was written earlier this year about setting up a project using Maven, Spring, Hibernate, and getting the entire setup done. Check out the 5 days of Wicket for your dose!

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