I’ve just submitted my hopefully last revision of chapter on models for the Wicket in Action book. With the help of Cynthia Kane (our fabulous editor) who was willing to lend me quite some time trying to overcome a writers block, I got the hang of it even though it took me a couple of days to revise it.

I think it turned out really well. Now if Cynthia agrees, I suspect that the chapter will become available soon in the MEAP edition of the book. So please cross your fingers with me and hope for the best.

For now I start revising chapter 6, which is still based on Wicket 2.0.

Today a new Wicket based project has announced itself: Wicket Web Beans (WWB). WWB is project that allows you to use the JavaBeans specification to quickly, and I really mean quickly create CRUD type user interfaces.

Dan, the creator of Wicket Web Beans writes:

Wicket Web Beans (WWB) is a Wicket component toolkit for displaying and editing POJOs that conform to the JavaBeans specification. Web pages are automatically generated based on bean properties and certain conventions. If necessary, the layout, editability, and actions of these pages can be customized on an exception basis. In other words, the toolkit normally does what you’d expect, but when it doesn’t, you can override its behavior.

From the documentation I could peruse, this sounds like an amazing addition to the Wicket framework space. You can get it now, downloads start at Wicket 1.2.6, and I think support for Wicket 1.3 is in the works.

The last three years the organizers of JavaZone and the Wicket team have tried to get a Wicket presentation at the JavaZone conference in Oslo. Each time we were unsuccessful in coming there. Fortunately Xavier Hanin was willing to present, and the JavaZone committee willing to accept him as the Wicket advocate.

Xavier writes to the user list:

I’ve just finished my presentation on Wicket at JavaZone! [...] From my point of view the presentation went pretty well, the room was almost
packed, if only I had a better spoken english level maybe I would have wake
up a few tired attendees in the back

I am sure your english didn’t have any influence on the sleepiness of the attendees, usually attending a conference is packed with going out and visiting bars, though given the prices in Norway that may be less so with JavaZone.

In any case, I wish to thank Xavier for taking on the responsibility of promoting Wicket at one of the leading Java conferences. Thank you!

jWeekend is hosting another Wicket training course on September 23rd. It is primarily aimed at beginner Wicket users and will get you up to speed for building your first Wicket web application in just one day. Our London delegate Alastair Maw is providing much of the course so you will learn from the Master. You can find more about the Wicket weekend course here.

The Wicket team is proud to welcome Gerolf Seitz on board. Gerolf has been working on wicket-datetime, created a really nice wicket-jmx panel for configuring your Wicket application while it is running. He has helped numerous people on the user list and we are happy he is willing to join our team!

Gerolf Seitz

Welcome Gerolf!