Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-15 Thread Johan Compagner
Also, it seems like a lot of swing developers wish they had something like wicket, where they can do the form layout/design in xml and then do the complicated bits in java. I think that although that isn't exactly what F3 is, that's why people are excited by it. i wouldn't like tha

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas R. Corbin
On Thursday, 12 April 2007 02:40 am, Chris Colman escreveu: > > Thanks, Igor, for taking the effort to answer my question. I so > > understand > > > that one of the core vision statements is separation of concerns. I am > > evaluating Click but haven't ruled out Wicket - just that some aspects > >

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-12 Thread Gabor Szokoli
Hi! On 4/12/07, Philip Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish that each form or form element element had a default renderer and > would render itself without needing to be embedded in some other html file. In my extremely humble opinion, this is a wicket extension feature, not a core wicket f

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Colman
> Thanks, Igor, for taking the effort to answer my question. I so understand > that one of the core vision statements is separation of concerns. I am > evaluating Click but haven't ruled out Wicket - just that some aspects of > Click seem less cumbersome because separation of concerns is not a > pr

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-12 Thread Robbert Vergeten
Exactly Igor, thats why I prever wicket over any other framework. I absolutely hate html generators or frameworks that generate there own html. I want freedom, not only because i'm a controlfreak but mostly because I know that using a framework that generates html in the end only leads to hor

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Igor Vaynberg
On 4/11/07, Philip Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand. Thanks. One of Rail's mantra is convention over configuration. Being able to render default HTML for common types of controls seems conventional - it seems less cumbersome. I am not disrespecting Wicket - I appreciate Wicket but

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Weaver
Inlined... On 4/11/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish that each form or form element element had a default renderer and > would render itself without needing to be embedded in some other html file. Yep, gotcha. > If layout is a problem - find a solution. It isn't a probl

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> I wish that each form or form element element had a default renderer and > would render itself without needing to be embedded in some other html file. Yep, gotcha. > If layout is a problem - find a solution. It isn't a problem. It's a core assumption that Wicket works on markup: 'enabling comp

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Weaver
Thanks, Igor, for taking the effort to answer my question. I so understand that one of the core vision statements is separation of concerns. I am evaluating Click but haven't ruled out Wicket - just that some aspects of Click seem less cumbersome because separation of concerns is not a priority th

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Igor Vaynberg
i thought you were using Click? anyways, what you want is possible, like ive mentioned, but is not the primary focus of wicket. wicket is about separation of concerns. that means letting the designers design the markup with all its pretty css and images, rather then making developers try to repro

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Weaver
I started this thread because I wish Wicket would support the following feature. I wish that each form or form element element had a default renderer and would render itself without needing to be embedded in some other html file. If layout is a problem - find a solution. I wish that Wicket had a

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Igor Vaynberg
On 4/11/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, from what I've seen Rails sucks. Really. I find it ugly to look at (JSP 1-ish), hardly has any abstraction and is all focussed on short-term productivity gain. I'm way more interested in long term gain (reuse, refactorability etc)

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> In one aspect it is a part of learning a library, on the other hand it fits > in with what I'm wondering: why the basic assumptions of building a web site > keep getting thrown out of the window with every new Java web framework. I > realize that people like the Swing framework for application bu

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Igor Vaynberg
@Igor: It's not trivial because it requires complete understanding of the whole Model system of Wicket. As per my actual question email, Martijn posted exactly what I'm doing and how to solve it. model is a core concept of the framework, so you better understand at least that before posting

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Jason Roelofs
On 4/11/07, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/11/07, Jason Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if someone here can answer me this question: Why do more and more > Java frameworks try to push users farther away from the tried-and-true web > experience of having web pages

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 4/11/07, Jason Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if someone here can answer me this question: Why do more and more > Java frameworks try to push users farther away from the tried-and-true web > experience of having web pages that submit to servers and create other web > pages? I'm n

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> Why is this, and where are the "modern" Java web frameworks that don't try > to reinvent the concept of a website? What a framework like Wicket tries to do is provide a programming model that mimics programming like you would do for a desktop UI app. Why? Because the model is much better suited

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Igor Vaynberg
u, this is not trivial? are you kidding? let me write something up from memory public class GuestBookPage extends WebPage { private List comments=new ArrayList(); private String latestComment; public GuestBookPage() { add(new ListView("comments", new PropertyModel(this, "comments")

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-11 Thread Jason Roelofs
On 4/11/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After 40+ hours of more research, I did indeed find my style of coding - and > > it clicks. Page-based, ... Another thing I don't agree with is that page-orientation is something to aim for[1]. I believe a mixed model is more powerful[2

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-10 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> > After 40+ hours of more research, I did indeed find my style of coding - and > > it clicks. Page-based, ... Another thing I don't agree with is that page-orientation is something to aim for[1]. I believe a mixed model is more powerful[2]. There's a lot more that can be said about the differen

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-10 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> After 40+ hours of more research, I did indeed find my style of coding - and > it clicks. Page-based, component-based, object-oriented web interfaces > driven by Java code with automatic html rendering. > > http://click.sourceforge.net/ > > Phil > > On 4/8/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-10 Thread Philip Weaver
After 40+ hours of more research, I did indeed find my style of coding - and it clicks. Page-based, component-based, object-oriented web interfaces driven by Java code with automatic html rendering. http://click.sourceforge.net/ Phil On 4/8/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-09 Thread Nathan Hamblen
I'm just going to echo what Eelco originally said: HTML is quite good for defining forms. I'm glad people have found ways to generate them from XML or whatever (and for some purposes I'm sure that's best), but I would encourage new users to keep an open mind about plain HTML templates for forms

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-09 Thread Igor Vaynberg
search the list and wiki for bean panels. there is also a bean panel project in wicket-stuff although i dont know how usable it is. -igor On 4/8/07, Philip Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am interested in creating a complex form in Java code without needing to manually configure any html

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-09 Thread Justin Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Actually I just did this at work but I used fragments rather than panels. We just need a simpler datatype->html widget look up so I just went with fragments so that I don't need to build a bunch of java class and html files. The fragments are na

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-08 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> Hello, I've been following the discussions here, and this one caught my eye. > Does this mean that Wicket is ill suited for example for creating dynamic > forms that are built dynamically at runtime after reading some page > definition file from xml or some other data store. I havent looked into

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-08 Thread Nart Seine
Hello, I've been following the discussions here, and this one caught my eye. Does this mean that Wicket is ill suited for example for creating dynamic forms that are built dynamically at runtime after reading some page definition file from xml or some other data store. I havent looked into Wicket

Re: [Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-08 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> I am interested in creating a complex form in Java code without needing to > manually configure any html for that form. In Swing for example, when you > create a text field, it automatically has a default representation/view. Not a good comparison though, as Swing doesn't generate markup. Like w

[Wicket-user] Creating Entire Forms in Java Code Only?

2007-04-08 Thread Philip Weaver
I am interested in creating a complex form in Java code without needing to manually configure any html for that form. In Swing for example, when you create a text field, it automatically has a default representation/view. If I decide I'd like to change the view, I set a new UI object. It basicall