by kinabalu on February 10, 2010
We’ve been seeing more and more implementations of IPageStore out in the wild for Apache Wicket. The interface basically decides how Wicket will store the Pagemap for your application. The default that ships with Wicket uses DiskPageStore which is an implementation that stores the serialized pages grouped in a single file per pagemap. [...]
by kinabalu on February 1, 2010
After following some of the debates raging about Apple’s new iPad and the future of Adobe’s Flash, the discussion usually turned to the coming future of HTML5.
Seeing as we love Apache Wicket at Mystic, I thought I’d tinker around to see how hard it would be to start adding some support for the new HTML5 [...]
by kinabalu on January 30, 2010
After a recent week long training Mystic gave a week ago, one item that came up was the examples as posted on the official Wicket website are a version behind. Available here: http://www.wicketstuff.org/wicket13/.
In response to throwing up the latest javadoc at a simple to remember URL on this website, the examples seem to be [...]
by kinabalu on January 29, 2010
There are definitely times, that I wish I had easy access to the javadoc for something in the Wicket internals, without opening the IDE, or keeping my own local versions available.
I usually resort to a quick Google search and unfortunately 9 / 10 I get a non-recent javadoc version.
Today I’ve gone through and [...]
by ptrthomas on 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 [...]
by kinabalu on 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. [...]