The WOLips Eclipse plugin sounds pretty impressive!
Yes, keeping the Wicket component hierarchy in sync between the Java
file and the HTML file can be annoying. (That's one reason I am
intrigued by the Echo2 approach -- treat HTML as machine language and
eliminate it from the application definition completely!) My approach
for Wicket is to work in terms of panels and to keep the nesting in any
single component or page trivially simple. (It's analogous to the
principle of keeping function/method definitions short enough to fit on
one screen.)
If you don't like the way Java flattens the component hierarchy with a
series of comp.add(...) instead of tag nesting, you can use nonstandard
indentation to show the hierarchy:
... Build components ...
page.add(cI);
cI.add(cIA);
cIA.add(cIA1);
cIA.add(cIA2);
cI.add(cIB);
page.add(cII);
cII.add(cIIA);
cIIA.add(cIIA1);
cIIA.add(cIIA2);
cIIA2.add(cIIA2i);
cIIA2.add(cIIA2ii);
cII.add(cIIB);
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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:16 AM
To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] WebObjects open source?
How you do (refactoring) with WO : WOLips (eclipse plugin) create a new
component (juste give it a name), open in WOBuilder (WYSIWYG editor for
editing simlessly both HTML template and binding file, in fact you don't
have to know there's 2 files), cut (or copy) past the part of your
existing page you want to be isolated in the new component. Define the
component API with WOBuilder.
That's it, drop it in your existings pages, set the bindings. That's why
the tools are here. (read the manuals about WObuilder if your
interested)
Now another question for wicket and refactoring, how can you keep in
sync HTML file and Java code without tools ? I'm not only talking about
wicket:id attributes, but also all the component hierarchy ? If you
doing big refactoring, that's 2 files to maintain. By the way, yes HTML
is difficult to read, but i prefer reading HTML + bindings in WOBuilder
where you could see in 5 secondes the hierarchy than only Java where you
have to look for
comp.add(...) all flatened.
That would be awesome if the eclipse (or netbeans) plugin could
synchronize this, that might be tricky to do but interesting.
That's also the reason why i like WO, you open a large page or component
and within 1 mins you have a good idea of his behaviour. Now with
Wicket, you must have some computer brain to understand in 1 mins what a
page is doing.
Now don't get me wrong, i appreciate a lot of good stuff about wicket
and the efforts you guys are putting in it. And let's face it, WO's core
developpers are/were not doing it for free :)
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