I was looking at the Library example and I noticed it uses a PageableListView added to a PagingNavigator to display the List of books. In this case all the books are being populated from a single List.
How do you handle the cases where you need pagation, but each request for a new page should go out o the server and get the new list. I don't like the idea of having to store potentially thousands and thousands of rows of data into a List just to create a sortable list. (I understand one initial query is needed just to get the overall size of the result set to create the page numbers, but that's a big difference in overhead vs having to populate all the potential objects from that query). To handle this in Wicket, would someone need to write a new component to satisfy this business need or can it be done using some standard iterating tag (similar to JSTL's forEach) and straight HTML? I'm new to using Wicket and still new to JSF as well, but I find the whole component type of architecture a mixed blessing. For simple stuff it's nice to have some out-of-the-box display features coded for you, but when you end up having to customize, I often find a pain. I know HTML and JSTL so coding my front end with simple JSTL and HTML is easy. It's a shame that it seems like these component based frameworks require you to work within the components to achieve what you want. For example, in JSF I was wanting to display a bunch of stuff in divs as I iterated over a collection. With standard JSTL and HMTL this is a piece of cake, but in JSF I couldn't even find a component to let me do this. Everyone said use the DataTable, but it didn't provide the functionality I needed. Thanks for any feedback. -- Rick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
