Made a few more changes. I think it's getting shorter/better.
My one regret looking at this documentation is that I wish IModel.get/setObject were actually IModel.get/setValue. Or was there some crazy reason we didn't do this? It would be much easier and more natural to talk about a model's value this way... Jonathan Locke wrote: > > > Nice work. I made a few small changes and rephrased the first paragraph > to be even more specific. Maybe it could be tweaked a little more, but I > think this sums it up better now: > > "In Wicket, a model holds a value for a component to display and/or edit. > How exactly this value is held is determined by a given model's > implementation of the wicket.model.IModel interface. This interface > decouples a component from the data which forms its value. This in turn > decouples the whole Wicket framework from any and all details of model > storage, such as the details of a given persistence technology. As far as > Wicket itself is concerned, a model is anything that implements the IModel > interface, no matter how it might do that." > > It does feel like this is the best place to show the IModel interface > since readers will be wondering what it looks like already. It sounds > scarier than it is, so why delay? > > > Loren Rosen wrote: >> >> I've saved my rewritten version. (See >> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Working+with+Wicket+models) >> Comments by everyone from experts to complete newbies >> are most welcome. Doubtless there are things that are confusing or >> flat-out wrong. >> >> In addition to rephrasing or rewriting a lot of material, and adding a >> few things, I >> excised some details I thought would be distracting for a beginner. Some >> of this >> material is, I think, still useful, perhaps in a slightly more advanced >> "More about >> Models" page. >> >> >> igor.vaynberg wrote: >>> >>> go ahead and edit the page...the wiki is versioned i think so we can >>> always >>> roll back. >>> >>> when you are done with the majority let us know and we will review the >>> changes. >>> >>> -igor >>> >>> >>> On 1/15/07, Loren Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> When I first started using Wicket I found the information on models a >>>> little >>>> hard to follow. So now I'd like to revise the "Working with Wicket >>>> models" >>>> wiki page >>>> ( >>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Working+with+Wicket+models >>>> ) >>>> to improve this. I'd be happy to outline what I think should be >>>> improved >>>> (though this is a little hard to do in detail short of simply >>>> annotating >>>> the >>>> page) or I can just plunge ahead and draft a revised page. If I do the >>>> latter I could potentially post it somewhere else for comment instead >>>> of >>>> directly replacing the existing page on the wiki. Perhaps we need a 'in >>>> draft' part of the wiki for working on long pages like this one. >>>> >>>> Actually, another alternative is for me to gradually introduce changes >>>> to >>>> the wiki page over a span of days, giving people a chance to comment as >>>> I >>>> go. >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://www.nabble.com/revising-the-%22Working-with-Wicket-models%22-page-tf3016921.html#a8378321 >>>> Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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