Last November I attended the Øredev conference in Malmö and was given the opportunity to present Wicket to a (mostly) Scandinavian audience. Øredev is different from all other conferences I’ve attended because it has different tracks other than web and Java. There was a Cool languages track, a Domain Driven Design track, a .Net track, a Mobile track and of course a Java track.
I delivered a newer version of the introduction to Wicket presentation and the audience gave me a 4.22 rating (52×5 points, 33×3 and 0×1 points). Øredev will publish recorded videos of the sessions at a later time (I’m anxiously awaiting at least 2 presentations) so you can see my performance yourself. In the mean time you can take a look at the slides on slideshare (you’ll have to imagine my voice for now) or watch them inline below.
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Sualeh Fatehi has written an article on Wicket for devx titled “Get Ready for Wicket 1.4’s New Java 5 and Spring Features”. He explains how to setup a project for Wicket 1.4-m1, and shows you how to do bleeding edge development with Wicket 1.4 snapshots. The article was probably written a while ago, since Wicket 1.4-rc1 has been out for a while now.
Anyway, it is always great to see people support your labor of work with writing articles about it. Thank you Sualeh for taking the time to write this article! Read Sualeh’s article here.
Just like most open source communities, Wicket is a global community. And with global communities come books in various languages. Wicket in Action is the third published Wicket book in english, and there has been one in chinese. Today I found the announcement of a german Wicket book which is simply called “Wicket“. Its subtitle is “Komponentenbasierte Webanwendungen in Java”. Even if you don’t speak german, the subtitle is easily translatable. The book is scheduled to be released in Juli 2009 and you’ll have to speak or learn german to read it :)
I haven’t heard about this book before, but I enjoy the fact that more people think it is worthwhile to write and publish books about the Wicket framework. More books means more community, which means more potential readers for all published books.
Geertjan is a Netbeans guy, and he has been writing about Netbeans and Wicket for as long as I’ve known him. Today he published a new blog entry showing how to create an Ajax auto-complete text field with Netbeans’ Wicket support and Wicket in 5 easy steps. Can it get any better?
Our publisher of Wicket in Action has a special offer today (December 8th, 2008): 50% off for all e-books. But it is only available today! Get your e-book of the books you always wanted to read, but thought too expensive to buy. Invest in your future by reading up on new technologies. All you need to do is enter “dec8″ as the coupon code when you check out your e-books.
The books I think are a great asset to your library:
One question is recurring on our user list: how can I prevent a user from clicking an Ajax link multiple times? There are several solutions to this problem, but today I thought up possibly the simplest solution yet for Wicket applications using the infrastructure that is already in place for displaying custom Ajax indicators.
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Ryan Heaton has published an introductory article on integrating his open source web services project called Enunciate in your Wicket application. It is a great introduction to Enunciate if you haven’t tried it yet, and shows how easy it is to get started. Now if only Ryan could be convinced to use Wicket in the generated web services documentation… Read the article here.
With this book, Wicket will become the greatest territory the Dutch have settled since Manhattan.
Nathan Hamblen
Senior Software Engineer, Teachscape Inc.
This is the complete and authoritative guide to Wicket, written and reviewed by the core members of the Apache Wicket team. If there's anything you want to know about Wicket, you are sure to find it in this book.
Jonathan Locke
Founder and Architect of Apache Wicket, Foreword Wicket in Action
Without question, Wicket in Action... is the be-all and end-all when it comes to Wicket.
Geertjan Wielenga, Wicket Netbeans Plugin Author
The tutorial and conversational tone of the writing makes the book very approachable.
Nick Heudecker
System Mobile
Loved the sample application—it tied everything together.
Phil Hanna
Senior Software Developer, SAS Institute
The essential guide for learning and using Wicket.
Erik van Oosten
Lead programmer and Project Manager, JTeam
Finally, the Web Framework of web frameworks, Apache Wicket, now has a bible of its own.
Per Ejeklint
Senior Software Architect, Heimore group
Wicket is an innovative evolution of the MVC programming with simple roots, but without a primer such as this, it can be more challenging than it needs to be.
Brian Topping
Founder, Bill2 Inc.
Wicket In Action glues the areas of web development with Apache Wicket together and gives a great overview of Apache Wicket...it will make a great compendium.
Nino Martinez Wael
Java Specialist, Jayway Denmark