Dear wicket users,
in my opinion the current discussion has 3 core themes
1. wicket 2 constructors vs. wicket 1.x constructors
2. generics at java 1.5 at all
3. the 2.0 model handleing vs. 1.x model handling
Now i want to summarize the current discussion for each topic
1. Only one person mentioned possible problems going back to 1.x construkctor.
They ware concerning ajax stuff but nearly all others said something like
- I found noch things that I can't do wit 2.0 that can be done with 1.x
- As the new features from 2.0 are backported to 1.x the opposite is true
- The current wicket 2 users will have no big trouble to change the
constructor back to 1.x style. It's some work to do but there is no
functionality loss in their applicatons
Conclusion: the constructor change itself seems not to be a problem for all
wicket users. But as the constructor change was used as a synonyme for "drop
wicket 2 at all" it seemde to be a big problem. My summary on constructor
change is only focuses on the pure constructor change.
2. As I can see, nearly all wicket 2 users got accustomed to generics and do
not want to drop the generics from thier application. The users that start to
use annotatioins for wicket-spring integration will also not want to get lost
of this. Maybe a java 5 wrapper around the un-generic 1.x classes may help
package wicket.markaup....
class Component {
is wrapped by
package wicket2.markup
import wicket.markup
class Component<T> extends Component{
ore something similar. So the wicket 2.0 users can go on using gnerics. The
wicket 2 users and perhaps some contributors of a minoir degree that do only
generification of comonents may build such wrapper classes and report
inconsistencys they detetct back to the core developers. Just an idea.
2. If the 2.0 model handling is backported to 1.3 oder 1.4 the same wrappers as
for topic 2 may help.
I like to work with wicket very much and I would do my part for generic
wrappers if possible.
Stefan Lindner
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