Wicket in Action

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

Saving lives with a Wicket Firefox plugin

February 16th, 2012 by dashorst

The girls and guys of 42 Lines have released a set of plugins that enable you to open a specific Wicket component in your Eclipse workspace when looking at it in Firefox. This will save so many hours looking up components in your web page and source code, that it will probably save lives.

And George Armhold has ported the plugin to IntelliJ’s IDEA. Who is going to build this for Netbeans?

QWickie — Apache Wicket Eclipse Plugin

June 14th, 2011 by dashorst

Eclipse users have been at a disadvantage for Apache Wicket development when compared to Netbeans or IntelliJ IDEA users. For those IDEs some nice integration plugins exist for web development using Wicket.

I just discovered QWickie, a plugin for Eclipse, which has the following features:

  • Navigate from java code elements to the corresponding html element via wicket:id
  • Show the corresponding html fragment from the java code element
  • Show the wicket:id line in the html file on mouse over
  • Rename HTML when renaming a wicketized java file (supertype Component)
  • Find html files in other locations
  • Jump to properties files
  • Jump to xml files
  • Support for other wicket namespaces
  • Wizard for new wicket pages
  • Code assist for wicket:id (Ctrl-1) in Wicket Java files. e.g. new Label(“<press Ctrl-1>”)

Be aware that this plugin is still 0.0.4, so use at your own risk!

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