A Wicket Diary

What would constitute good Wicket improvement projects for Google’s Summer of Code 2007? Here’s a list I just came up with:

• add support for new markup languages: WML, XUL, …?
• create visual editor for Eclipse, Netbeans or IntelliJ?
• create comprehensive scalability/performance tests between Wicket, JSF and Tapestry
• expand/improve on Wicket Kronos, a Wicket based CMS
• write a reference manual or a doclet for generating one from our JavaDoc
• write a conference planner for ApacheCon in Wicket
• …

I think this is just a short list, and I guess there are much better ideas than what I came up with. Share your ideas!

Eelco writes on the mailinglist after some (luke warm) discussion on how to test the new custom serialization Johan is building into the next Wicket versions. This is what he wrote:

Hi all,

We’re (Johan mostly) are experimenting with custom serialization to
see whether we could speed things up a bit (which doesn’t mean what we
have now is bad btw).

For anyone working on 1.3: we could use your help testing that
feature. The only thing you need to do is turn it on on your
development machine, by doing this in e.g. your application’s class
init method:

Objects.setObjectStreamFactory(new wicket.util.io.WicketObjectStreamFactory());

And then just report any issues you encounter to this list or the
developers list. Of course, if you have tweaks, test reports etc,
that’d be even cooler.

The default can be set like this:

Objects.setObjectStreamFactory(new IObjectStreamFactory.DefaultObjectStreamFactory());

which is based on JDK’s serialization. If you don’t configure
otherwise, that is what is used.

Thanks,

Eelco

So please help us out here and use the new WicketObjectStreamFactory in your development efforts and create bug reports if/when you find anything wrong.

The promise of this custom serialization is that it will improve the throughput and memory footprint of your Wicket application considerably. So help yourself, your employer and the Wicket community by testing the new serialization.

It seems that around Valentine’s day and carnival the Java open source community is very generous with sending gifts to the general public: first Wicket 1.2.5 saw the light, and now we can reap the benefits of months of ploughing through issues by the Maven team.

The Maven project released the long awaited Maven 2.0.5. Congratulations and celebrations.

Ever had to disappoint a date because you had to work late? No more! With Wicket 1.2.5 you will be able to leave the office on time, ahead of the evening rush and surprise your Valentine with your presence.

Download Wicket 1.2.5 now!

This time I agree completely with the Microsoft marketing department: Microsoft Office 2007 is the best Microsoft Office for 10 long years. But I probably have other reasons than they have. Finally they removed the annoying paperclip from the suite.

Clippy-be-gone-forever.

Now, if they also ditched that infuriating search dog in Vista that plagues Windows XP…