{"id":811,"date":"2007-10-13T01:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/13\/wicket-is-not-wicked\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T01:37:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T23:37:28","slug":"wicket-is-not-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/10\/wicket-is-not-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicket is not wicked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago, I did some testing<\/a> with Adobe Flex<\/a>. Flex is a component-based framework. Basically you create a webpage and put a bunch of Flex-components on it. I know, oversimplified, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

When I started at my current employer, I made a career-switch and wanted to develop in Java. I had a lot of desktop programming experience, some (non-professional) web-development experience, and thought that would be enough to make the switch to Java.
\nAlmost 2 years have passed, and still I can’t develop JSF (we’re an Oracle-company, so ADF-Faces, but the concept is the same) applications. I tried a couple of times. I know how the concept works. But what I could create in Flex in about 10 or 20 minutes, I still cannot create with the tools I’m supposed to use professionally. Since I don’t qualify myself as utterly stupid, Flex must be doing something right.<\/p>\n

Correct. Flex is component-based. If you need more functionality, you extend an object, and use it in your application. The reason I like that, is because that’s the way I used to develop desktop applications. An IDE like Visual Studio or Delphi works the same.
\nBut Flex is not Java. Coldfusion<\/a> in a way is, but I need to run my software in an Java-environment where Coldfusion would be something extra (think: more expenses).<\/p>\n

Wicket<\/a> is a component based web framework. Basically you create an HTML page, put some Wicket components on it, create and\/or fill-in the backend Java-classes (POJO’s!) to define the behavior of the components and basically that’s it. Create a WAR, deploy to the application server, and run. Sounds simple? It is! I just ran a very simple test with Netbeans 6 beta 1<\/a> and Glassfish V2<\/a> and the Wicket page shows what I just created. Wicked<\/strike>t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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