I just love advocating wicket into large corporations... :) "What are you going to do about the open bugs?" "And they say that wicket's generics implementation is highly experimental, that doesn't sound very trustworthy, does it?"
But eventually we succeed. Articles like the following are very useful when negotiating: * http://www.indicthreads.com/news/435/wicket_java_framework_saves_programming_time.html * http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/seam-jsf-vs-wicket-performance-comparison/ * http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/a-wicket-user-tries-jsf/ ** Martin 2009/12/22 Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro <reier...@gmail.com>: > Hi Eelco, > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Eelco Hillenius <eelco.hillen...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> > I love Wicket and the natural approach it offers to do web-development... >> > and I have been pushing hard to use it whenever possible... but on the >> > "real world" it is not enough to be an excellent product to gain >> > wide acceptance... Does last sentence ring a bell? >> >> I think we've gained pretty wide acceptance actually. Wicket In Action >> has been a best seller for Manning in the months right after it came >> out, and Wicket is by many considered as one of the leading web >> frameworks for Java. We've also had one of the most active email lists >> for years now. I'm sure Wicket lags behind JSF and Struts considerably >> when it comes to number of users, but hey, why would we care. You only >> need a bunch of serious users to maintain a framework, and Wicket has >> many thousands of them :-) >> >> You don't have to convince me about Wicket excellence! I love Wicket, I've > been using it for over two years now, and right now I'm doing all my efforts > to get it adopted at the company I'm working for... But being realistic they > will probably jump to Struts 2, or Seam-JSF... > > After re-reading my message I see maybe it was bit "pessimistic".. maybe > out of my present frustration. > > Cheers, > > Ernesto > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
