Wicket in Action

Deal of the Day: Wicket in Action for 50% off

dashorst — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:26:04 +0000

Wicket in Action is today’s “Deal of the Day” over at my publisher, Manning. Use the promo code dotd0503 for a 50% discount on your purchase of Wicket in Action. Use promo code m240 to get a 40% discount for all purchases through Manning, for example JQuery in Action to prepare for Wicket 6, or [...]

JBoss AS 7 + Wicket + JPA in OpenShift Free Java EE Hosting | JBoss AS 7 | JBoss Community

dashorst — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:27:25 +0000

A short tutorial showing how to deploy a quickstart with JPA in OpenShift: JBoss AS 7 + Wicket + JPA in OpenShift Free Java EE Hosting.

Using Twitter Bootstrap Navbar as a Wicket component | Tomasz Dziurko

dashorst — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:56:24 +0000

Tomasz Dziurko took Twitter’s bootstrap menu and describes how to make it available as a Wicket component. Read about it here: Using Twitter Bootstrap Navbar as a Wicket component | Tomasz Dziurko.

Saving lives with a Wicket Firefox plugin

dashorst — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:02:08 +0000

The girls and guys of 42 Lines have released a set of plugins that enable you to open a specific Wicket component in your Eclipse workspace when looking at it in Firefox. This will save so many hours looking up components in your web page and source code, that it will probably save lives. And [...]

Built with Wicket: Small Improvements

dashorst — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:40:22 +0000

Performance review software, 360 degree feedback software, objectives management. Small Improvements.

Apache Wicket – Wicket 1.5.4 released

dashorst — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:38:51 +0000

See: Apache Wicket – Wicket 1.5.4 released.

Autocomplete Ajax with Wicket And jQuery UI

dashorst — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:12:31 +0000

Jeff Schwarz, The Wicket Evangelist blogs about Marrying Wicket And jQuery UI Autocomplete Ajax: I learned that no one seemed to have posted a pure Wicket solution but rather relied upon wiQuery’s implementation. [As] I prefer to not use wiQuery and to roll my own reusable “pure” Wicket based solutions

What’s new in fiftyfive-wicket 3.1

dashorst — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:23:09 +0000

San Francisco startup 55 minutes has created a Maven quickstart archetype that bundles quite some functionality in one powerful package: Compass and Sass stylesheets Shortcut methods for frequently used idioms Handy components such as pluralized labels for numeric data, and a label for truncating long text with an ellipsis Testing tools for validating HTML 5 [...]

Detect attached models and entities in your component hierarchy

dashorst — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:33:00 +0000

Adrian Cox asked a great question over at StackOverflow on how to prevent (Hibernate) entities from being attached to your Wicket component tree, thus generating all those nasty exceptions like StaleObjectException, LazyInitException and the like: JPA managed objects must not be stored in the session. Instead, JPA managed objects are loaded on each request through [...]

Leveraging Conversations to Reduce Plumbing | 42 Lines

dashorst — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:22:52 +0000

Igor wrote an interesting article covering CDI Conversations and Wicket in Leveraging Conversations to Reduce Plumbing: in this article we are going to see how we can use [conversations] to get rid of some plumbing code when binding Wicket components to entities. The code examples are really enticing.