Comments on: 5 Days of Wicket – Designing the backend

By: mystic blog » 5 Days of Wicket!

mystic blog » 5 Days of Wicket! — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:16:03 +0000

[...] Day 3 – Designing the backend [...]

By: Korbinian Bachl

Korbinian Bachl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:14:18 +0000

PS: not sure about this completely, but AFAIK the wicketApplication class bean should be the *last* bean that is added in the applicationContext.xml as there could be situations where a too early startup of the wicketApplication class would fail as not all resources are 100% available in that case;

By: Korbinian Bachl

Korbinian Bachl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:09:09 +0000

Thanks for letting me know. However, when I turn back the time-wheel to the point where I was completely new to wicket and I come over a tutorial (even a series) I rather did a hit on the “run” button than wait for another day to see whats going on

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By: Craig Tataryn

Craig Tataryn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:12:53 +0000

FYI: Steve’s entry on day 4 will cover the WicketApplication class and how to wire it.

By: Guillermo Castro

Guillermo Castro — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:38:42 +0000

Well, this is a series of tutorials, with each one building on the previous one. But I added the wicketApplication to the context anyway. Thanks for your comment.

By: Korbinian Bachl

Korbinian Bachl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:06:00 +0000

In your applicationContext.xml you miss the bean for the wicketWebApplication class; As this is a tutorial situation you should include it else everyone who starts it up will see an error that i can’t be found.

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By: Guillermo Castro

Guillermo Castro — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:03:32 +0000

I’m pretty sure Ruby has its advantages, simplicity being one of them, but I think you’re missing the point of the article, which is to set up the basis for a Wicket application, which is Java-based. If we were discussing RoR or another Ruby-based framework, I’d be glad to look at how Ruby does things.

By: Craig Tataryn

Craig Tataryn — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:47:05 +0000

Likewise, I’ve always thought RoR should have a framework like Wicket. Or does it? Since using Wicket, RoR kinda just seems like what we were doing back in the days of JSPs. That is how does a designer properly edit a RoR page? Or are there techniques which allow them to edit pages in their favourite editor without having to know Ruby?

By: Rodolfo Ruiz

Rodolfo Ruiz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:21:35 +0000

Nest time you might want to try ruby and active_record for your ORM needs. All it needs is something like this to recreate your desired functionality (plus the migration file, which is the place where you declared your variables, its type and its relation to other tables)

pastebin.rb
has_many :pb_siblings

pb_siblings.rb
belongs_to :pastebin

and then:

class Pastebin < ActiveRecord:Base
end

class PBSiblings < ActiveRecord:Base
end

Once you have this, you can use all the functionality you implemented by hand using your DAOs

By: JavaGeek.org

JavaGeek.org — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:15:07 +0000

5 Days of Wicket – Designing the backend…

5 Days of Wicket – Designing the backend is an article written by yours truly as part of a series of articles geared towards the better understanding of how to create a web application using Apache Wicket. Enjoy. (You can read a short introduction t…