Deal of the Day: Wicket in Action for 50% off
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%...
View ArticleWicket 6.0.0-beta2 released
The Wicket team is proud to announce the second beta release of the Wicket 6.x series. This release brings over many improvements over the 1.5.x series. New and Noteworthy Wicket Atmosphere The Beta 2...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Wicket 6
What’s new in Wicket 6 Wicket 6.0 is around the corner and it is time to describe what’s new and what’s has changed since Wicket 1.5. This article will mention briefly the major things. More details...
View ArticleWicket 6 JavaScript improvements
A major rework of the internals of the core Wicket JavaScript libraries has been done for Wicket 6. The good news is the client APIs are mostly the same and the application developers will not need to...
View ArticleWicket 6 Native WebSockets
Asynchronous communication with Web Sockets Wicket 6.0 introduces two new modules, both of them related to Server Push technology, Wicket-Atmosphere and Wicket Native WebSockets. In this article we...
View ArticleWicket 6 resource management
Several improvements in the header contribution functionality have been made in Wicket 6 to make it more flexible. Header items The major API break is that now IHeaderResponse can render only instances...
View ArticleWicket-CDI for Wicket 6.0 and More
If you are using wicket-cdi in your projects, or are thinking about using Wicket and CDI together, read this short blog post about the current status of the wicket-cdi module and its future.
View ArticleUploading files to Wicket IResource
Several times people have asked in the mailing lists how to integrate JavaScript widgets for file uploading like Plupload, Uploadify, Fine Uploader or jQuery-File-Upload with Apache Wicket. The problem...
View ArticleJavaScript based functional testing
The problem Every software developer very well knows that producing new code leads to producing new bugs (problems in the software). The good software developers know that writing tests for their code...
View ArticleWicketStuff download stats for Nov 2012
Some download statistics for Wicket Stuff projects for November 2012: inmethod-grid (2468) googlecharts (666) tinymce (660) wicketstuff-annotation (648) inmethod-grid-examples (589) input-events (572)...
View ArticleReplace components with animation
In this article I’m going to show you how to replace a component in Ajax response using animation effects like sliding, fading, etc. The problem To update a Component in Ajax request Wicket just...
View ArticleServer and client side validation
Maybe not so well known feature in Wicket is that the form component validators are actually Behaviors, or if they are not then a special adapter is used, so at the end they are stored as a behavior in...
View ArticleSurgical Ajax updates with Ractive.js
Replace all with outerHTML At the moment (Apache Wicket version 6.10.0) when a Component has to be updated in Ajax response Wicket will replace the whole HTML element with all its attributes and...
View ArticleCapture JavaScript errors and log them at the server
Capture JavaScript errors and fix them ThoughtWorks technology radar recommends capturing client-side JavaScript errors and logging them at the server. This way you can see whether your application...
View ArticleThe State of Wicket 2014
In this short presentation I delivered at the first DEVdev meetup I talk about the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar January 2014 assessment of JSF, 10 years of Wicket history, the state of our community,...
View ArticleWicket at ApacheCon 2014: Croquet
Due to an unfortunate scheduling conflict I’m unable to attend ApacheCon 2014 in North America, but it appears that ApacheCon isn’t bereft of a Wicket attendance: William Speirs is presenting his...
View ArticleHeader contributions positioning
Wicket 6.0.0 came with some nice improvements in the header contribution management. With these improvements it is possible to put a specific header contribution at the top of all others by using...
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