You can download the first 4 chapters of EWDWW for free iirc, just as you can download 3 WiA chapters (2 from the book, one as an extra). Read those and see which writing style is more to your liking.
As far as Wicket in Action is concerned: we tried to be as practical as possible, and go in depth when necessary to explain the underlying ideas. I think we got the balance right: enough code examples to try out and see how things should be, but no listings that span for pages without any explanation. Despite having to read WiA a couple of hundred times while writing it, I still think it is a book I would love to read if I wasn't one of the authors. As for 'missing' versioning in the ToC: we had to make choices in what to discuss. Versioning is such a deep technical detail which both Eelco and myself haven't had much to work with directly, that we didn't want to include it. It would open up a can of worms and it would be obsolete with Wicket 1.5 (which doesn't do versioning in the same way). I see versioning in Wicket to be an implementation detail not worth too much attention—until you run into a problem, and then the user@ list is a much better resource than a book. Martijn On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Arjun Dhar <dhar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I've been playing with Wicket for a while now and i think in certain areas > (specially internal architecture) i need to still connect the dots at a > larger scale so was researching books. > > "Wicket In Action" & "Enjoying Web Development with Wicket" seem to emerge. > > Wicket In Action --> Seems more conceptual (Deeper understanding) > Enjoying Web Development with Wicket --> For practical programming and > explaining existing components etc. > > Anyone who has read both? > As a test I did not find the concept of "Versioning" mentioned in the TOC > atleast. > > ..and how come Igor hasn't written a book?, his answers are never more than > 2 lines (except when he is pissed off) heh :) > > .anyway I dont mind buying both but one has to also read them ;) [Phew i > prefer to Hack and try] > Any suggestions ? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Need-Wicket-Book-tp1888069p3037727.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
