Working on someone else's complex wicket pages can result in a lot of time spent hunting for components in the source. What if you could click on an item in the web page and jump straight to the line of Java source that created it?
The net.ftlines.wicket-source module, plus a couple of plugins, lets you do just that. There are three parts - a module for your WicketApplication, a Firefox plugin, and an Eclipse plugin. 1. Wicket module records where in the source code each component is constructed and saves it in an HTML attribute. 2. Firebug extension displays the html attribute in Firebug's sidebar and lets you click to open it in Eclipse. (Chrome extension pending.) 3. Eclipse plugin listens for clicks from Firefox and opens the file to that line of the Java source. These three pieces together close the circle from wicket components and html rendering, to the browser, and back to the wicket component source, speeding work on existing but unfamiliar pages, and making minor wording tweaks quick and easy. For more information and installation, check out https://www.42lines.net/2012/01/31/announcing-wicket-source/ Release 1.5.0_06 is available in maven central. 1.5.0.7-SNAPSHOT contains a bug fix for ajax components. Jenny Brown
