Good Texts for Wicket

[Michael Koboldt <ko...@gmail.com>]

Hello World!

Hope this email finds you well!

Outside of the API documentation and the examples on the net, I am in
search of some up-to-date textbooks for wicket 7.x and wicket 8.x. . Would
"Wicket in Action" still be worth picking up even though it was written
with Wicket 1.3 in mind? Also, if you know of any other texts that you feel
would be beneficial, it would be greatly appreciated.

Started developing on Wicket recent coming from a Spring background, where
I am really enjoying it. So thank you for that!!

Cheers,
-- 
*      Michael J. Koboldt*

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RE: Good Texts for Wicket

[Mike Koboldt <mi...@starkbros.com>]

@ Martijn: 

Awesome! Thank you very much! This was the exact answer/explanation I was looking for!

Thanks again! 

Mike K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn Dashorst <ma...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:43 AM
To: users@wicket.apache.org
Subject: Re: Good Texts for Wicket

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Michael Koboldt <ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello World!
>
> Hope this email finds you well!
>
> Outside of the API documentation and the examples on the net, I am in 
> search of some up-to-date textbooks for wicket 7.x and wicket 8.x. . 
> Would "Wicket in Action" still be worth picking up even though it was 
> written with Wicket 1.3 in mind? Also, if you know of any other texts 
> that you feel would be beneficial, it would be greatly appreciated.

The reference guide online is pretty up to date, but hasn't been professionally edited so can be a bit rough to read. You have no idea what a professional editor does to a text to make it readable.

Wicket in Action is getting old in the tooth, but many concepts would still be valid, although the code examples won't work.

The biggest change is the addition of generics to Wicket since 1.3.

Other caveats:
 - use onConfigure() & setVisibilityAllowed(...) rather than overriding isVisible()
- mounting for bookmarkable pages has been reworked
- resources (header items, etc) has been reworked

and probably much more. The details might be off, but if you read it for conceptual explanations (high overview) I think Wicket in Action still works.

> Started developing on Wicket recent coming from a Spring background, 
> where I am really enjoying it. So thank you for that!!

I'm glad you enjoy it!

Martijn

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Re: Good Texts for Wicket

[Martijn Dashorst <ma...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Michael Koboldt
<ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello World!
>
> Hope this email finds you well!
>
> Outside of the API documentation and the examples on the net, I am in
> search of some up-to-date textbooks for wicket 7.x and wicket 8.x. . Would
> "Wicket in Action" still be worth picking up even though it was written
> with Wicket 1.3 in mind? Also, if you know of any other texts that you feel
> would be beneficial, it would be greatly appreciated.

The reference guide online is pretty up to date, but hasn't been
professionally edited so can be a bit rough to read. You have no idea
what a professional editor does to a text to make it readable.

Wicket in Action is getting old in the tooth, but many concepts would
still be valid, although the code examples won't work.

The biggest change is the addition of generics to Wicket since 1.3.

Other caveats:
 - use onConfigure() & setVisibilityAllowed(...) rather than
overriding isVisible()
- mounting for bookmarkable pages has been reworked
- resources (header items, etc) has been reworked

and probably much more. The details might be off, but if you read it
for conceptual explanations (high overview) I think Wicket in Action
still works.

> Started developing on Wicket recent coming from a Spring background, where
> I am really enjoying it. So thank you for that!!

I'm glad you enjoy it!

Martijn

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