I have a Wicket application at work that has been well-received by its internal users. Because I am not much of a web programmer, and because it is for internal use only, I built a bunch of general-purpose panels and base pages which I use to assemble the application-oriented pages using no additional HTML. Many of the general-purpose panels simply provide the HTML for general purpose Wicket components (e.g. sets of radio-buttons and sets of checkboxes) with a simplified API façade that provides only the flexibility needed in my application.
My application-oriented pages therefore emphasize the business logic, with very little code whatsoever dealing with display logic. Yes, the resulting pages are ugly, but they are functional and reliable so my users don't care. Now I have a new requirement. A group would like to use this application with the proviso that no open-source software be used! (They have a short list of permitted exceptions containing standard stuff such as Struts.) Since I chose Wicket so that I could use more-or-less a Swing style of programming, I figured it would be easier to translate my application into a fat-client application using Swing and deliver it via WebStart -- rather than, say, re-implementing it in JSP or JFS. :-( There will only be a few users, and they work for the company; I'm not terribly concerned about maximizing performance. Do you have any suggestions about the most straight-forward way of translating a Wicket application to Swing? I suppose that I would represent each page as a JFrame, and each panel as a JPanel. In my panels I have a number of components (buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons...), many (but not all) of which post back immediately on change, and a very few AJAX components that redraw only a bit of the page. What would be the most direct method of modeling page post-back (and partial post-back, for the AJAX components) in Swing? This question is kind of ironic, since Wicket was created to provide a more Swing-like approach to web programming, and now I'm wondering about Wicket-like approach to Swing programming! :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
