Pro Wicket (Expert's Voice in Java) [Hardcover]

Karthik Gurumurthy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590597222 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597224 | Publication Date: September 7, 2006 | Edition: 1

Wicket is an open source, component-oriented (POJOs-based), lightweight Java web application development framework that brings the Java Swing event-based programming model to web development. Wicket pages can be mocked up, previewed, and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools.

Wicket provides stateful components, thereby improving productivity. It has an architecture and rich component suite that aims to bring back the object orientation and, more importantly, the fun that is missing from the Java web development space. With the impending 1.2 release, Wicket is set for wider adoption.

Pro Wicket gets you up and running quickly with this framework. You’ll learn how to configure Wicket, then gradually gain exposure to the Wicket way of addressing web development requirements. You’ll want to pick up a copy because it:

• Is the first book to cover the Wicket framework with Spring integration and Ajax features
• Demonstrates all major wicket capabilities through simple examples
• Covers important aspects like Wicket-Spring integration and Ajax support

Table of Contents

1. Wicket: The First Steps
2. Validation with Wicket
3. Developing a Simple Application
4. Providing a Common Layout to Wicket Pages
5. Integration with Other Frameworks
6. Localization Support
7. Custom Wicket Components and Wicket Extensions
8. Wicket and Ajax
9. Additional Wicket Topics

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Karthik Gurumurthy has been associated with the IT industry for more than six years and has employed open source libraries to solve business problems. Karthik also has the experience of having documented a popular open source project: XDoclet2. He has been having a great time with Wicket since day one of adoption and would like to let others know how Wicket succeeds in bringing back the fun that has been missing in the Java web development space. He also contributed to the Wicket project through the Wicket-Spring integration module using Jakarta Commons Attributes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597222
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597224
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,547,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unclear and lousy, January 9, 2008

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Wolt (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Wicket (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

I bought this book several months ago and walked through the chapters. The authors did a poor job of explaining items and rushed into printed code examples without describing citing what was going on. The book's sentences all make sense but don't fit well together.
The Wicket framework itself is good, but this book is not. I've read an early access copy of Wicket in Action which does a much better job. Buy that instead.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars hope for a better book on Wickiet, March 20, 2007

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J. Wu "mills flower" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Wicket (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

It is good to be the first book about Wicket, that in itself helps readers who seek more comprehensive information than the online doc. However, the book is too deeply bound (almost obsessed) with working through the example code. It does not do a good job to explain the architecture view of Wicket and how it differs from traditional frameworks, nor does it provide much description to the many components with wicket or its extension. For the experienced developers, the wicket Wiki on [...] is more helpful. For the novice, this isn't a well organized to learn from.

Hope the Wicket in Action will do a better job.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly edited first printing, September 29, 2006

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F. Ingham (Centreville, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Wicket (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

Update 10/04 - The source code for the book is now available for downloading and a second edition of the on-line version of the book has been posted that corrects many of the first printed edition's errors.

Pro Wicket is the first book to be published about a promising web framework called Wicket. While I typically have nothing but praise for Apress books, the editing of this book is severely lacking. The majority of the source code in the book's first printing is incorrect in some manner or another. The book indicates that the source code for the book can be downloaded from the Apress website but as of this writing, the source code is not available. Unfortunately, the errata pages on the Apress site are of limited help because they are incorrect in many cases as well leaving one to figure out the intent of the author through trial and error.

That said, if you are willing to learn through trial and error and are comfortable perusing the Wicket API documentation, this book will give you a reasonable, albeit frustrating, introduction to the Wicket web framework.