Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-11 Thread Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael
I think theres lots(Eelco usually being the friendliest), however considering the subject of this thread. I think most will be inclined to be not so friendly. - Kick a guy in his ass and then asking to borrow a coin won't get you any.. regards Nino A_flj_ wrote: Thanks, I'm just downloading

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-11 Thread Florian Hehlen
Hi all, I have been on holiday for a while... and I am very much surprised to see this thread still going! Eelco Hillenius wrote: previous post. After all, as far as I could notice, he's the only one who didn't make fun of this thread's initiator in his first response. You know how it

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-11 Thread A_flj_
Al Maw wrote: I'm guessing you didn't try typing wicket treetable into Google and clicking the I'm feeling lucky button? Right, I pushed the google search button instead. Silly me. I got to sites where the examples were on display. But I could not find any place where a downloadable

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-11 Thread Jan Kriesten
hi, What I do: - checkout the directory wicket-examples try checking out not only wicket-examples but the whole trunk. then you should have all dependencies. regards, --- jan. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-10 Thread Al Maw
A_flj_ wrote: Bad bad bad bad thing that the examples for the wicket-extensions are either hard to find or not documented very well. I'm trying for half a day now to find an example markup for inserting a treetable, but could not find anything. I'm guessing you didn't try typing wicket

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-08 Thread A_flj_
Thanks, I'm just downloading the examples, hopefully I'll get what I need from them. Is there any friendlier poster here than Eelco? A_flj_ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wicket-did-not-make-the-grade.-tf386.html#a11023996 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-08 Thread Johan Compagner
Is there any friendlier poster here than Eelco? yes he is called igor johan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-08 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Hello. It seems some people didn't understand my previous post, and consider it offensive (private post). To all ppl who potentially had the same understanding of my post I appologize. It wasn't meant to be offensive. I really mean Elco is a friendly responder, and that's what I meant in my

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-08 Thread A_flj_
Hello. It seems some people didn't understand my previous post, and consider it offensive (private post). To all ppl who potentially had the same understanding of my post I appologize. It wasn't meant to be offensive. I really mean Elco is a friendly responder, and that's what I meant in my

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-07 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 6/7/07, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've often heard it said that us human beings are strange - we often prefer the familiar to the pleasant. And it is confirmed in this article [1]: Explaining Cognitive Lock-In: The Role of Skill-Based Habits of Use in Consumer Choice KYLE B.

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-07 Thread A_flj_
Bad bad bad bad thing that the examples for the wicket-extensions are either hard to find or not documented very well. I'm trying for half a day now to find an example markup for inserting a treetable, but could not find anything. IMO it would be _very_ useful to make wars/jars/zips with Eclipse

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-07 Thread howzat
I too would be sad to announce this outcome, especially after investing the time necessary to research and evaluate the options and having looked into some of the ways wicket improves the whole development experience for web apps and, the quality of the end product. I have only been working with

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Alex Objelean
In our company we are using Wicket since last year and I am working on the second project with it. For the first project, client insisted on using wicket and this was an opportunity to learn. For the second project (fully ajaxified application), we had to choose between GWT and Wicket, and

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Eelco Hillenius
hope to use it for as many as possible projects in the future :). Good to hear. I hope you and others will continue being part of the community, making Wicket the best framework we can. Cheers, Eelco - This SF.net email

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread severian
Jon Laidler wrote: True separation of concerns is the mantra we should use when asked why Wicket. Let web designers do their magic with web site design, and leave Java coders handle the components. I think Wicket sells itself short if it emphasises only the designer-developer separation

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread C. Bergström
big snip / You know all technology aside... It should be clear even to a lay person the value of the wicket community is tremendous.. Outside of a few well deserved smart-a** comments you can always get help and or someone to even go the extra mile to teach.. So thank you... ./C

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread John Krasnay
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:40:33PM -0700, JonLaidler wrote: I would be interested to hear how many companies are usng Wicket, and how many of those companies switched to Wicket from other frameworks. Here's my Wicket story. Our team is a small internal development group inside a large bank.

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Florian Hehlen
Hi John, John Krasnay wrote: Amongst Wicket's many advantages, the following stand out for me: - The ability to encapsulate UI components, including all required markup, CSS, Javascript, and localization files, into shared JARs on the classpath. Having a shared component library is key

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Scott Swank
I think that forms and tables seem awfully verbose when you first start Wicket. A wiki page or two taking an example of such through a reasonable evolution to some short, tight code would be nice. I have an old e-mail thread where Igor does exactly that, helping me. I'll put it together into

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread James McLaughlin
Nice work :). This would make a good contribution to wicket-minis. After that, if you could whip up one with autocomplete instead of refresh, that would be great too :) best, jim On 6/6/07, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that forms and tables seem awfully verbose when you first

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
This was almost exactly my own reaction to the original assertion that this team has very strong OOP skills. The criticism cited sounded a lot more to me like reflex than any kind of thinking. James McLaughlin-3 wrote: Hi Florian, To be honest, you should have titled this post My team did

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
Florian Hehlen-2 wrote: -It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the fact that we have some in-house knowledge with it. translation: we don't want to think -Struts is the de-facto standard with a lot of community/vendor/documentation support translation:

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-06 Thread Iman Rahmatizadeh
On 6/7/07, Jonathan Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Hehlen-2 wrote: -It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the fact that we have some in-house knowledge with it. translation: we don't want to think -Struts is the de-facto standard with a lot of

[Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Hehlen
HI all, I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use wicket after comparison with struts 2. :-( One criticism that came out as we were looking at Wicket code was that there seems to be a need to write a lot of Java code in a ListView for such things as displaying a table.

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Johan Compagner
I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use wicket after comparison with struts 2. :-( it are 2 different worlds.. can you give me an example then with a page with 2 listviews on it that are sortable for example on both struts and wicket ... (ofcourse if i sort one then the

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Juergen Donnerstag
This is not very difficult to implement. The displaytag example in wicket-examples used to have it and it was based on ListView. But I think we removed it since Repeater/DataView etc from wicket-extension is more flexible and elegant and our preferred approach for most table type implementation. I

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Al Maw
Florian Hehlen wrote: HI all, I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use wicket after comparison with struts 2. :-( One criticism that came out as we were looking at Wicket code was that there seems to be a need to write a lot of Java code in a ListView for such things

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Peter Thomas
I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use wicket after comparison with struts 2. :-( One criticism that came out as we were looking at Wicket code was that there seems to be a need to write a lot of Java code in a ListView for such things as displaying a table. Although I

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Hehlen
Hi, The 3 key arguments against wicket were: -It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the fact that we have some in-house knowledge with it. -Struts is the de-facto standard with a lot of community/vendor/documentation support -Struts seems heavy on the java-code

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Matej Knopp
But you've decided to use struts2. Struts 2 is a complete rewrite, it's different than struts 1. -Matej On 6/5/07, Florian Hehlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The 3 key arguments against wicket were: -It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the fact that we

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Hehlen
hi, oops! first a correction: Struts seems heavy on the java-code required for things that are pretty simple with Struts should have read Wicket seems heavy on the java-code required for things that are pretty simple with Struts2 Struts 2 is a complete re-wite... yes and no. It's nothing

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Hehlen
Hi, The comparison was a bit skewed where I showed the richness of such components as a DataView(sortable and pageable) in wicket and that was compared with a simple static table on Struts 2. Johan Compagner wrote: Wicket if adding those low-level components was only necessary

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Sorry to hear that Florian. But I hope you'll have a good ride with Struts 2 all the same (and that it does solve some of the problems that Struts 1 has). Eelco - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail
Sorry to barge in, but... I what I really don't get is: Is these science or fiction? Because if those are the kind of arguments... Then I must agree with Peter, its a waste of time, and just say that. They don't see Struts-2 for what it is, they don't see Wicket for what it is. What is the

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread James McLaughlin
Hi Florian, To be honest, you should have titled this post My team did not make the grade. There are many developers in the world whose skill and ambition rise little above cut and paste robot, and many burned out managers who have decided employees will never be capable of much else. Struts is a

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail
Is it possible to agree more with this post? f(t) On 6/5/07, James McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Florian, To be honest, you should have titled this post My team did not make the grade. There are many developers in the world whose skill and ambition rise little above cut and paste

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread JulianS
Al Maw wrote: Maybe we should include something like this in wicket-examples. People just don't seem to appreciate how easy it is to write this stuff. Absolutely you should do this. Two big reasons I was able to persuade my current client to go with Wicket were the excellent examples and

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread John Krasnay
Hear, hear...well said, Jim! jk On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:42:16AM -0500, James McLaughlin wrote: Hi Florian, To be honest, you should have titled this post My team did not make the grade. There are many developers in the world whose skill and ambition rise little above cut and paste robot,

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread Timo Rantalaiho
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007, Florian Hehlen wrote: Well how about simply binding a DataView to a the Model and assume that for all wicket:id in the html template I should find a getter method in the bean? This sounds like a CompoundPropertyModel in use

Re: [Wicket-user] wicket did not make the grade.

2007-06-05 Thread JonLaidler
Sorry to hear that. I would be interested to hear how many companies are usng Wicket, and how many of those companies switched to Wicket from other frameworks. Personally, I think Wicket is the best framework I have come across. True separation of concerns is the mantra we should use when asked