Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-31 Thread samket
ram it do something. WebComponent is equally simple but less often useful because it can't be a parent to other components.  - Original Message -  From: Jeremy Thomerson  Sent: 07/28/11 01:29 AM  To: users@wicket.apache.org  Subject: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer mus

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-28 Thread Michael O'Cleirigh
Hi Jeremy, I think the most important things a wicket programmer should know relate to building their own set of resuable components.Here are my top ten on that theme: 1. Build a reusable set of components tailored for your business domain. 2. Solve a few problems then push up the commo

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-28 Thread Arjun Dhar
Velocity. Wicket-Velocity project. - Software documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is still better than nothing! -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/RFC-Ten-things-every-Wicket-programmer-m

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-28 Thread Carl-Eric Menzel
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:29:22 -0400 Jeremy Thomerson wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm writing an article for a Java magazine and would like to > include in it a list of "ten things every Wicket programmer must > know". Of course, I have my list, but I'd be very curious to see > what you think shoul

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Clint Checketts
My Top 10 (some already mentioned): 1. Use LoadableDetachableModels 2. DefaultModels get detached otherwise you need to detach your model manually (as Dan mentioned) 3. Setup components to pull in their data and state, typically via models. This includes pulling in a components isV

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Bertrand Guay-Paquet
Hi! I don't recall who the author is and the page is currently down (500 server error), but http://www.small-improvements.com/10-things-about-apache-wicket-i-love is a post I enjoyed reading earlier this year. Regards, Bertrand On 27/07/2011 6:29 PM, Jeremy Thomerson wrote: Hello all,

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Retzlaff
1. Wicket's IOC integrations are really easy to get started with, but there are some gotchas. Since they inject serializable proxies* *to dependencies instead of the dependencies themselves, the dependency gets retrieved/created from Guice/Spring each time a page is deserialized. Therefore, it's ve

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Ben Tilford
1. How "static" resources work. For a newcomer this can be shocking/frustrating. 2. Models are a context that holds a reference to a model. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Scott Swank wrote: > Jeremy, > > I just threw together the following, which indicates that at least to > me Models are wor

Re: RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Scott Swank
Jeremy, I just threw together the following, which indicates that at least to me Models are worth 3 of your 10 items. 1. Most components have a backing object of some sort. This object is referenced via a Model. Significantly, the type of the component and the model match (e.g. Label has an IMode

RFC: Ten things every Wicket programmer must know?

2011-07-27 Thread Jeremy Thomerson
Hello all, I'm writing an article for a Java magazine and would like to include in it a list of "ten things every Wicket programmer must know". Of course, I have my list, but I'd be very curious to see what you think should be on that list from your own experience. Or, put another way, maybe t