Matthew J. McCulloughAmbient Ideas, LLC

Apache Wicket 101

Thank You

Thank You!

Matthew McCullough is a Java application architect and co-founder of Ambient Ideas.  He is an outspoken advocate for the use of Agile Methodologies and Open Source libraries in Enterprise Applications.  Matthew serves as a member of the JCP, member of the CSIA Planning

Committee, member of CodeReviewers.com, member of the board of directors for the Denver Open Source Users Group, and frequently speaks at this and other training sessions.  Matthew contributed to the Sun Java 5 SCJP Certification Exam, and makes appearances in coding on several open source projects.  Matthew's experience

includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Services systems, including a J2EE Resort Management application supporting celebrity destinations across Canada, the USA, Belize, Panama, and Mexico.

Why?

What good is another web application framework? Why re-invent the wheel? Because this t i m e w e c o u l d m a k e i t

rounder!

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”Jonathan Locke, Wicket Project Founder

The Short List

Automatic StateNo HttpSession

POJOsNo GET/POST

Localized StylesNo XML

Maven SupportNo Custom HTML

Like SwingUnlike Struts

Simplicity

Technicalities

Pairing

Java FileHTML File

Components

Web Application

Page

Panel

Form Label

Code Review

•Wicket Homepagehttp://wicket.apache.org

•The Server Side Wicket Introhttp://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=IntroducingApacheWicket

•Reference Wikihttp://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/reference-library.html

Resources

Q&A

Email questions to:MatthewM@AmbientIdeas.com

Slides & Source Code at:www.AmbientIdeas.com/engineering/engineering-presentation.html