It is a great day: Igor Vaynberg, the most prominent committer for Apache Wicket (he has the most commits I think) has written up an article about building a smart EntityModel. You can read it at the official Wicket blog: wicketinaction.com
I’m in the middle of creating a conversion utility from one database to another, and I have to reinitialize my Hibernate configuration quite often. When you have a couple of hundred entities that need configuring, starting up Hibernate can take a long time. My initial thought was to serialize the SessionFactory and deserialize it upon each startup.
I didn’t try this yet, but something tells me this won’t work. Call it a nagging feeling. However, it should be possible to run the SessionFactory in a Terracotta cluster and keep that server alive, and connect my conversion utility on startup with the Terracotta cluster. This should make startup times a snap.
Mind you: this is just a thought experiment. If someone has done this before, leave a note!
My new website for all stuff related to Wicket is getting some traction: the number of visitors is rising, though not at the same level this one has. The goal of wicketinaction.com is to become an official place for Wicket Community related news, not just book news. Expect release announcements, events announcements and articles to be published on wicketinaction.com
I suspect the new wicketinaction.com website will become more popular now that Igor Vaynberg, one of the most prominent committers for the Wicket project, has pledged to start blogging on wicketinaction.com.
I’m expecting quite some dynamite from mr. Vaynberg—he’s responsible for the awesome repeaters package, spring integration and salve (Salve solves the problems that cause anemic domain model anti-pattern and brings back object oriented programming to the business tier).
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Like I promised, I’ve revamped the Wicket in Action companion website. I think it looks decent enough, and this format allows me to focus the Wicket writing in one place (and promote the book even more).
Expect to see all Wicket related content to move to that site. I reserve this site for ramblings about Maven, Hibernate, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Apache, FSF, and of course cats.
Unfortunately for those of you that want to know everything about me, you’ll have to look twice from now on (but if you’re really a stalker, you have to look in more places than these two). However, if you’re only interested in Wicket related news, then the new setup is beneficial, since you don’t have to read all about my cats anymore.