Comments on: What Java web framework to use?

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:32:18 +0000

It’s never too late for another Wicket tutorial. Thanks for the link.

The book looks good. Is this something you are planning on publishing? I look forward to seeing the rest of the book.

You are correct, there are not many books or tutorials out there that show you how to use Wicket with TDD, Spring, Hibernate and JPA.

By: Kent Tong

Kent Tong — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:22:48 +0000

It’s probably a bit late, but I’ve written a fairly detailed tutorial on Wicket available at http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDW/chapters1-3.pdf.

By: Philip Weaver

Philip Weaver — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:45:48 +0000

http://click.sourceforge.net/

I like this framework because it is page based, component based, and the control objects render themselves without any need for templating. Quick, simple, and easy.

I have searches among 50+ java web frameworks. This one looks really neat and has superb documentation? Anyone know of any other similar frameworks which are similar but better. e.g. page based, component based, most controls are rendered automatically and laid out in code.

By: Muthu Ramadoss

Muthu Ramadoss — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:45:10 +0000

SEAM

is good.

By: Perryn Fowler

Perryn Fowler — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:09:58 +0000

I have happily been using a Spring-WebWork stack for several years, so I’d have to recommend Struts-2.

By: tim wee

tim wee — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:27:05 +0000

hey chris,
struts 2 is ok if you use spring along with. actually the 2.06 release (GA) has annotations. Too bad our project started before that release so it’s full of xml.
That link you have is pretty useful. Struts2 is a pain the ass to look for documentation, you sometimes have to go dig in webwork’s stuff to find what you want.
Don’t you want to drink a little of Google’s kool-aid and use Guice instead of Spring for IOC? =)

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:03:49 +0000

Josh, it either means I made a mistake and was off by a factor of 10 or the poor Gorilla finally went on a diet :-).

Waffle is a new framework that I haven’t heard about, I will have to check it out.

By: Josh Cronemeyer

Josh Cronemeyer — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:54:40 +0000

+1 on waffle.

PS. What does 80lb. gorilla mean? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=800-pound+gorilla
800 pound gorilla is a well known term. Is 80lb gorilla some sort of insult?

Just curious.

By: Eelco Hillenius

Eelco Hillenius — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:19:16 +0000

There is a book on Wicket: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10189

A second one, Wicket In Action is still in the making. It’ll take a few more months to complete that. However, the WIKI isn’t half bad, most functionality that matters in Wicket is covered by the examples projects, and the mailing lists are amongst the most active around, with tens of thousands of messages archived. And there’s the ##wicket IRC channel of Freenode, which typically has between 25 - 45 people hanging out. So… if it is documentation and support you’re looking for, Wicket is about as good as it gets.

By: Michael Ward

Michael Ward — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:35 +0000

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Have a look at http://waffle.sf.net

It avoids XML like the plague and only has 2 annotations (which are optional).

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