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Wicket is on the Google Open Source blog

The latest London Wicket get-together has been featured on the Google Open Source blog. Check it out for links to photos, etc. I’ve also put up some presentations and code samples from the event, including our dynamic AJAX image-cropper component.

London Wicket User Group is today!

If you’re in England and you’re reading this over your morning coffee, fresh off your RSS feeds, it’s your last chance to sign up for today’s London Wicket User Group, held at Google, next to Victoria station.
I’m going to show you how to make a dynamic AJAX-powered image cropper, just like the one you get [...]

Wicket User Groups Go Global

Wicket is looking particularly exciting at the moment. Why? Is it because Wicket 1.3 is nearly ready to take its first steps into the world? Or is it because Wicket in Action will be out soon? Nope. What’s really exciting is the way the community is taking off.
Becoming an Apache project, with all the benefits [...]

Wicket Guice updates

I’ve updated the Wicket Guice integration project with some new features. The last of the following wasn’t quite done in time to make the upcoming Wicket 1.3.0-rc1 release, but the other features listed here are in. They are:

Support for ... [More] Provider -based injection.
Support for TypeLiteral -based injection.
A GuiceWebApplicationFactory, so you can make your WebApplication subclass Guice-managed [...] [Less]

Wander along to the upcoming London Wicket Event

I’ve put together some interesting material on making really shiny forms with Wicket. I’ll be presenting it tomorrow at the fourth London Wicket Users Group event, which is being hosted by Skills Matter in Clerkenwell. See the jWeekend registration page for more details.

Wicket gets Guicy

Having refactored our proxy support in Wicket’s Spring module into a new wicket-ioc module last night, I decided to see how hard it would be to add decent integration for Google’s Guice IoC framework.
Turns out, it’s not very hard at all, as I’ve just done it over my lunch-break. ;-)
There is now a wicket-guice project [...]

London Wicket Users Group

As posted on wicket-user, I’m trying to get a Wicket Users Group off the ground here in London. With the 1.3.0 release on the near horizon, Wicket is really beginning to gain some traction in the industry. Come along and see what all the fuss is about.

Google-powered custom Wicket search

Trying to find information about Wicket? I’ve set up a new custom Wicket search engine courtesy of Google. Feel free to give it a twirl, and please ask me if you’d like any sites adding to it.

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Matt Raible has a post asking people for various statistics about their web framework of choice. He’s asking for numbers for the following:

How many tools (i.e. IDE plugins) are available for your web framework?
How many jobs are ... [More] available for your framework on Dice.com? What about Indeed.com?
How many messages where [sic] posted to your user mailing [...] [Less]

JSP and Wicket, sitting in a tree…

Most programmers like writing things from scratch, but throwing it all away and starting again often isn’t feasible, especially with web applications. I’ve recently been migrating a JSP/servlet based app to Wicket and I suspect there are many ... [More] people who are going down this path.

There aren’t enough man hours available to rewrite everything at once, [...] [Less]