Wicket is looking particularly exciting at the moment. Why? Is it because Wicket 1.3 is nearly ready to take its first steps into the world? Or is it because Wicket in Action will be out soon? Nope. What’s really exciting is the way the community is taking off.
Becoming an Apache project, with all the benefits [...]
I’ve updated the Wicket Guice integration project with some new features. The last of the following wasn’t quite done in time to make the upcoming Wicket 1.3.0-rc1 release, but the other features listed here are in. They are:
Support for Provider<T> -based injection.
Support for TypeLiteral<T> -based injection.
A GuiceWebApplicationFactory, so you can make your WebApplication subclass Guice-managed [...]
People seem to have problems getting started with Wicket using the Maven 2 archetype quickstart. In an effort to make this as obvious as possible, I’ve created a screencast showing you how to do it, explaining each step in detail along the way. It’s done from a pretty-much virgin installation, so there are no bits [...]
Cemal and I have been working hard refining jWeekend’s upcoming Getting Started With Apache Wicket 1.3 and Apache Wicket 1.3 courses. They’re scheduled for September 22nd and September 29th-30th respectively.
They’re an excellent way to get up to speed with Wicket and develop an in-depth understanding of Models, Behaviors, the AJAX functionality, advanced validation, etc., etc. [...]
I’ve put together some interesting material on making really shiny forms with Wicket. I’ll be presenting it tomorrow at the fourth London Wicket Users Group event, which is being hosted by Skills Matter in Clerkenwell. See the jWeekend registration page for more details.