Ashley, Take a look at chapter 1 of Wicket In Action (free download at http://www.manning.com/dashorst/).
Regards - Cemal http://www.jWeekend.co.uk http://jWeekend.co.uk Ashley Aitken wrote: > > > Howdy All, > > Just trying to explain to some colleagues how some of Wicket works > (differently than most other Web frameworks), so please correct me if > I am wrong. > > From my understanding Wicket differs from most other Web frameworks > in that it doesn't manage the creation of the object graphs > representing Web pages (it's done simply through the Java new operator > and composition of objects by the constructors within that super > hierarchy). > > The positive side of this is that it removes the need for Web page > factories that take strings as arguments to construct the object > graphs, and thus are not easily refactored within Java IDEs. The > "negative" side of this is that page caching now needs to be done by > saving the object graph in some form, e.g. directly in the session or > serialising to a file. > > The more common alternative, as mentioned above, is to have some sort > of factory that manages the construction of the object graphs > representing Web pages. As the framework can do this, as needed, it > doesn't need to cache the entire object graph, it can just save the > data needed to refill within a Web page. > > Of course, this is probably just one difference and may not be the > most important aspect of Wicket. It is, however, I believe why Wicket > needs to have detachable models, so that the large models don't also > need to be saved. > > Apologies in advance for any mistakes or poor communication. Any > comments or clarifications? > > Cheers, > Ashley. > > -- > Ashley Aitken > Perth, Western Australia > mrhatken at mac dot com > Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-Wicket-difference-...--tp19724703p19727253.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
