Hi, We also had the same consideration when we chose Wicket. But why choose an inferior technology just because of it's Adoption Numbers? Also, Wicket is becoming more and more popular as people see the light :)
Check out Jobs Trends (Relative Growth) here (JSF vs Struts vs Wicket): http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Struts%2C+JSF%2C+Wicket&l=&relative=1 We have a couple of hundred customers and so far the feedback is great both from our Developers and our Software Architects. Customers like that the GUIs are faster due to the simplicity of Ajax Adoption in Wicket. I also know that several large privately held companies in Sweden are using Wicket, as well as large Government Agencies (e.g. the Swedish Immigration Office). Sincerely yours Leo Erlandsson Lester Chua <cicowic...@gmail.com> 2010-01-08 01:43 Sänd svar till users@wicket.apache.org Till users@wicket.apache.org Kopia Ärende Help with Wicket Adoption Numbers Hi, I am facing a hurdle that need crossing in my final attempt to push Wicket for use in an organization. I have: 1) Prototyped a small size module 2) Did 2-3 presentations on the key features and advantages of wicket No one is disputing my claims about productivity and good OO code that was the result. BUT, the technology evaluation committee is NOT recommending Wicket because of..... of all things..... - Wicket's Low Adoption Rate!!!! Can I find any numbers to blow this away? My alternative is to accept the finding and work with Struts 2. Which will mean the stack will need to expand to DWR (for security). I REALLY don't want to go there, and am even considering not taking part in this project due to the high risk involved, only 9 months to introduce huge changes to a system that has lots of legacy problems (took about 3 years to build). I think a lot of those years were spent wrestling with the monster that is EJB 1.1. The only way I thought the project can even be on time is to scrap the entire presentation layer (aka Struts) and redo it in Wicket with 1 dedicated developer while the rest of the team work on killing the beast that is EJB 1.1 by refactoring the biz code. Sigh, my choices are stark. It's either to keep the job and plough ahead and probably fail spectacularly 9 months later or go hungry and explain to my wife why we need to spend less on the kid...... It's easy to blame the tech committee but they did help me find wicket by rejecting my initial proposal to build the new system on a (JQuery+JSON+REST) framework, which can be very productive as well, if not as "clean" as Wicket. Sorry for rambling so much. Is there any way I can demolish the silly low adoption rate argument (omg I still don't believe it can be so lame)? Lester --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
