A Wicket Diary

Though even after automatic translation largely uncomprehensible, I found this article in ChinaItLab. From the translation:

Wicket is completely object-oriented. We may inherit the sex using the module design oneself the application. Here does not need for to process the HTTP agreement the request / response does any work.

Though I have seen several references between sex and Wicket, this one is by far the most explicit link, and should entice many Java geeks to try out Wicket JUST IN CASE.

With the continuing attention for the Wicket Framework in the far east, it seems that even without JavaOne Tokyo, Wicket gains momentum.

The Nippon Web Framework Smackdown has created some confusion on what the numbers mean, but today (or yesterday), the author unveiled the true meaning of the numbers and ranking. Or better put: as far as I could tell from the Japanese to English translation by Google…

This time he also included Struts into the graph and had refreshed the numbers:

So you can see: Wicket even beats Struts…

For those that are too lazy to read the article itself, apparently it is the number of delicious bookmarks for each framework. Strange thing: I searched for wicket on the delicious website, and I only got 171 hits. I’m not complaining though!

I usually don’t blog about personal things, and write just about Wicket, or any new, Java related subject I’m excited about, but I’m breaking that habit for this time…

What is the fascination cats have with closed doors? Everytime we shut a door to keep the draft out, a cat immediately wants us to open that door. Sometimes she’ll even grant you 5 minutes couch time, but I just think that is the time they need to realize the door has been shut.

Is there any scientific research being done on how long a cat can be in a (large) room with a closed door before she starts to scratch?

Nathan Hamblen has created a databinding package for Wicket and Hibernate. It certainly is worth checking out, as it will allow you to:

start using the best programming technologies today, without fussing over their configuration.

Nathan writes:

Your job is to feed annotated data classes to Databinder, then write your view classes and HTML templates to render them in a browser. (You can take ?fastest XML typist in the West? off your resume now.)

When I ask rapid web development: truth or dare? Nathan takes the dare!

There is something magical about Wicket, but I’m having a hard time to put a finger on it…

Graph taken from http://canetrash.seesaa.net/

The way the numbers are generated seems to be a secret, and probably means something mysterious…

Funny how the language barrier makes such articles unclear, even after automatic translation. But for now I’m not complaining (I think it is a positive article on Wicket).