Do you mean client-side events or server-side events, or something in between?
I think while we lack server-side events we actually have a system for handling client side events using jQuery and LOAD. I will post an example. I need to resume and fix this: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/9c7ac0bfa7f6fe7/2f972fa13ed0f1a0?lnk=gst&q=jdiv#2f972fa13ed0f1a0 the jDiv class was the grandfather of the LOAD helper. On Oct 15, 3:10 pm, Michele Comitini <michele.comit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lately I have been "forced" to use wicket (wicket.apache.org). > Wicket is by no means "agile" compared to web2py. Wicket is not a > full stack framework it needs a lot of other things to serve pages. > As with any java coding wicket takes ages and pages to do things > that python does in one line. Against there is the java language which > is not functional and you need to carry around full objects (in wicket > called models) to pass messages between components, which can be long > to write. > > But the thing I would take from wicket is a strong component/event > oriented approach with well defined interfaces, and a lot of > predefined widgets. > > The same componet/event architecture can be implemented in web2py > using pyjamas, and it is quite easy and much more flexible, but it > would be nice to have it included by default or as a plugin! > > 2010/10/15 David Marko <dma...@tiscali.cz>: > > > My favourite for clean java ishttp://www.playframework.org/Better > > experience than with Grails. > > > David > > > On 15 říj, 02:21, Bruno Rocha <rochacbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Grails uses a template language > > >> <g:each in="${books}"> > > >> You can't write Java or Groove in views as we can do with web2py writing > >> pure Python direclty in views. > >> It is one of the best/important feature in web2py, lot of people love > >> web2py > >> because of the template system. > > >> 2010/10/14 Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> > > >> > On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:38 PM, DJ wrote: > > >> > I was in a discussion recently telling my friend how great Web2Py was > >> > for programmer productivity with all the inbuilt features (server, > >> > CRUD, auth). We were wondering if there was anything similar in Java? > >> > Quick google search brought me to Tapestry and Wicket. > > >> > Can any of you comment on any frameworks in java you have worked with > >> > that resemble Web2py? Thank you for your comments. > > >> > One possibility is Groovy, essentially a dynamic version of Java, and the > >> > Grails framework. > > >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_(programming_language)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29> > >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_(framework)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_%28framework%29> > > >> > *Java is the new COBOL* > > >> -- > > >>http://rochacbruno.com.br > >