Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-17 Thread Scott Carpenter
Hi -- I've inherited a wicket site that was first developed four years ago. It is running on version 1.4 and I've been asked to estimate an upgrade to a more current version, and I was hoping to get some advice from this list about gotchas and so on. I've been working on the site for several month

Re: Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-18 Thread Martin Grigorov
Hi, I'd advice you to read the migration guides 1.4->1.5 and 1.5->6.0. Then start migrating the app and ask here if you have specific problems. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Scott Carpenter wrote: > Hi -- I've inherited a wicket site that was first developed four years ago. > It is running

Re: Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-18 Thread MartinoSuperman
When you use a different version of Wicket, check, if the version is the same in NetBeans. Otherwise, it will be get stuck... -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Advice-for-upgrading-from-an-old-version-of-Wicket-tp4662469p4662488.html Sent from the

Re: Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Carpenter
Thank you, Martin. I'll do that. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Martin Grigorov wrote: > Hi, > > I'd advice you to read the migration guides 1.4->1.5 and 1.5->6.0. > Then start migrating the app and ask here if you have specific problems. > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Scott Carpenter

Re: Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-20 Thread Scott Carpenter
On another angle, suppose you're looking at also upgrading Hibernate and other supporting libraries/frameworks. Would you recommend starting with any particular component? It seems to me that starting with Wicket might be a good idea, since it would hopefully be backwards compatible with other lib

Re: Advice for upgrading from an old version of Wicket

2013-11-20 Thread Martin Grigorov
Hi, Most of the time this should not matter. Wicket doesn't use many dependencies. In this particular case it may matter because Wicket uses CGLib to generate proxies for classes (in contrast to interfaces) and Hibernate also uses bytecode generation (either via CGLib or Javassist) so a problem m