Don’t get me wrong, Mystic Paste is great! However if I’m on ##wicket and someone asks a question about some code, and I know I’ve written that code, I want to be the first to respond. I don’t want some n00b making me look like a n00b by responding first So instead of: copying code [...]

So… you should now have a fairly good understanding of how to put Wicket together with Spring and Hibernate, creating your DAOs and services and putting that code through the test gauntlet. We can see that our foundation is rock solid… but we’re missing the eye-candy… so let’s hop over to the UI and show [...]

As mentioned in day 2 of our series, we have a main service interface that came from an initial discussion of what we think a pastebin should do. What can be easier than creating an entity model for a pastebin application, right? It’s just a big text area that holds a piece of text (content) that [...]

Introduction

Wicket is a Java web application framework which allows “Designers” (people good with Dreamweaver) and “Developers” (people good with Java and Databases) to collaborate on a project with minimal chances of stepping on each other’s toes or wearing each other’s hats.

The beauty of Wicket is that it uses plain xhtml pages as it’s templating markup. This means that html pages can be loaded into Dreamweaver (or whatever tool the Designer is comfortable with) and they will look very close to the same as they would when rendered on the deployment web server.

At Mystic, we love our technology, and we love to evangelize the best of the best. We’ve been brewing a cauldron of new ideas, and the latest, is a series of articles surrounding building actual applications with the technology we love, and sharing how it was all done with you. Our first feature: 5 days [...]

It is probably already well known, if you’re doing Ajax, I might not be popping any big secrets here. But I was reading Wicket in Action tonight, and ran across a very helpful tidbit on how to properly hide a component. If you’ve constructed a component that you’d like to show, upon an action, you [...]

Qwicket is an easy and fast solution for creating your next project with Wicket. Right from the website, you can create an account (if you’d like to save your work as you go), and add beans to your project directly from the UI. Qwicket 0.4 was just recently released by Justin Lee, and it features [...]

After much loss of sleep trying to use DatePicker in wicket-extensions, I’ve instead opted to create a simple component with date selectable dropdowns of month, day, year. This little pet project was great, in that it helped me really get a better understanding of how Model’s work with Wicket