Wicket in Action

A comprehensive guide for Java developers building Wicket-based web applications

Autocomplete Ajax with Wicket And jQuery UI

December 19th, 2011 by dashorst

Jeff Schwarz, The Wicket Evangelist blogs about
Marrying Wicket And jQuery UI Autocomplete Ajax:

I learned that no one seemed to have posted a pure Wicket solution but rather relied upon wiQuery’s implementation. [As] I prefer to not use wiQuery and to roll my own reusable “pure” Wicket based solutions

What’s new in fiftyfive-wicket 3.1

December 7th, 2011 by dashorst

San Francisco startup 55 minutes has created a Maven quickstart archetype that bundles quite some functionality in one powerful package:

  • Compass and Sass stylesheets
  • Shortcut methods for frequently used idioms
  • Handy components such as pluralized labels for numeric data, and a label for truncating long text with an ellipsis
  • Testing tools for validating HTML 5 and XHTML markup
  • Apache Shiro (a security framework) out of the box
  • JavaScript capabilities for dependencies and merging

Very interesting project. Read more about their 3.1 release of fiftyfive-wicket here: What’s new in fiftyfive-wicket 3.1 – 55 Minutes Blog.

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