The Wicket presentation I was writing earlier about is finished. It took a lot of will power to create it and I hope it resembles anything good. Perhaps I will be putting the presentation on the web, but that is not certain at this time.
In the mean time, why don’t you look at the Hello World Example of the Wicket project.
For my employer, Topicus I need to give a presentation concerning Wicket, the new Java web application framework. I’ve been willing to do so for a couple of weeks, and last monday I couldn’t postpone it any more, so I sent the invitations to all Topicus employees. Now I only need to deliver and that is pretty hard… I should stop writing this blog and go work in the presentation.
I have spend all morning creating a custom XSLT stylesheet for the Wicket project so that a RSS feed is generated each and every time the front page is created using maven.
The feed is extracted from the Latest News section and transformed into a RSS-0.91 XML file. The biggest hurdle I had to overcome was the absence of getting the current date into the resulting XML file. Why oh why isn’t a standard date/time facility available in XSL? I had to resort to Xalan-J specific functions in order to get the current date in the feed.
The only problem I now have is that the Sage RSS reader plugin for firefox doesn’t show the update date when the feed is read. I hope that Sage sees when the RSS is updated, otherwise my efforts have been nought.
UPDATE: Sage RSS works like a charm!