Wicket in Action

Øredev Wicket presentation well received!

dashorst — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:33:21 +0000

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, [...]

Article: Get Ready for Wicket 1.4’s New Java 5 and Spring Features

dashorst — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:58:50 +0000

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 [...]

German Wicket book

dashorst — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:17:55 +0000

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 [...]

Geertjan: 5 steps to Ajax autocomplete with Wicket

dashorst — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:34:17 +0000

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?

Today only: 50% off all e-books

dashorst — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:10:23 +0000

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 [...]

Preventing double Ajax requests in 3 lines of code

dashorst — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:13:25 +0000

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. Wicket provides [...]

Include rich web services in your Wicket application

dashorst — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:36:02 +0000

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 [...]

Presenting Wicket at Øredev

dashorst — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:08:38 +0000

I’m in the fortunate position that I can join the ranks of the best presenters and technologists in the world and present Apache Wicket at the Øredev conference in Malmö next thursday (November 20th—which also happens to be my birthday). I’m flying into Copenhagen tomorrow and will be joining the ranks of Bruce Snyder, Alef [...]

Meet the Wicket Community: Jeremy Thomerson

dashorst — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:45:16 +0000

In the continuing series of interviews with the Wicket community, I was fortunate to interview Jeremy Thomerson and to meet him in person at ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans. As I expected, Jeremy is really a great guy (just as Bruno Borges, whom I also had the honor to meet in person). Jeremy develops [...]

Enunciate and Wicket sitting in a tree

dashorst — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:42:56 +0000

Web applications rarely exist in a vacuum—usually they have to publish their guts using web services to third parties. One typical problem of publishing web services is the art of documenting them correctly. Enunciate is a great product that goes above and beyond the task of publishing web services: it makes them useful by combining best [...]