Wicket in Action

Martijn Dashorst Topicus b.v.

Wicket in Action

Create web applications with just Java and HTML using Apache Wicket

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Martijn Dashorst
Software Engineer Committer Chair Co-author
Eelco Hillenius

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Agenda
What is Wicket? Wicket concepts Building a Wicket Application Q&A

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Wicket?

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Wicket?

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Wicket
Home Introduction Planet Wicket Community News

Welcome to Apache Wicket

With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data mod el, and a refreshing lack of makes developing web-apps XML, Apache Wicket simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex brittle code for powerful, reus debugging and able components written with plain Java and HTML. Check the feature list Read some Wicket buzz, some Wicket blogs or Planet Wick et Find out why you should use Wicket Check out some selected exam ples in detail or see them and many more in live action Take a look at our live comp onent reference Go and download Wicket. Wicket is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Getting Started
Examples Getting Wicket Components QuickStart

Documentation
Wiki Blogs Reference Vision JavaDocs

Community meetings
The Wicket community is a very active community. The mailing lists and the irc chan But for those that prefer face nel are proof of that. to face meetings, several comm unity members have organized meetups. Country Where When USA San Francisco to be determined Belgium Antwerp JavaPolis'07 (dec 12th -14th) The United Kingdom London The first Tuesday of every mon The Netherlands th Amsterdam ApacheCon EU'08 Denmark Copenhagen to be determined Austria Linz/Hagenberg to be determined Sweden Stockholm Januari Brazil Rio de Janeiro to be determined USA Minneapolis/Seattle to be determined If you are interested in atten ding one of these events, pleas e add yourself to the appropria you want to organize such a te event, or if meetup yourself, add it to the community meetups page

Releases
Wicket 1.3-rc Wicket 1.2 Wicket 1.1 Wicket 1.0

Tool support
IDE plugins

Developers

News

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Apache Wicket
Component oriented Open source Web application framework Java+HTML

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Hello, World!

Hello, World!
<h1 wicket:id=msg>[text goes here]</h1> + add(new Label(msg, Hello, World!)); = <h1>Hello, World!</h1>

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Hello, World!
<h1 wicket:id=msg>[text goes here]</h1> + add(new Label(msg, Hello, World!)); = <h1>Hello, World!</h1>

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A brief history of Wicket

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 Discovery of the Hobbit Year of the monkey Milau bridge opens

2004

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2005
Airbus A380s maiden flight Huygens lands on Titan Dr. Who returns

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JavaOne05
Tapestry guy Bald guy Struts/Shale guy

Wicket 1.0
JSF guy WebWork guy Wicket guy
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2007
Joins Apache Software Foundation Releases 1.3 User groups start spawning

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Wicket uptake
Wicket 1.2 released

Wicket 1.0 released

Joined Apache
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Popular?
Java Software Apache Software Foundation Web frameworks

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Projects

core extensions ioc (spring, guice) date/time velocity auth-roles

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Wicket
Home Introduction Planet Wicket Community News

Getting Starte d
Examples Getting Wicket Components QuickStart

Documentatio

With proper mark-up/logic separation, a makes develop POJO data mod ing web -apps el, and a refr simple and enjo brittle code eshing lack of for powerful, yable again. XML, Apache reusable com Swap the boil Wicket ponents writ erplate, com ten with plai plex debugg Check the feat n Java and HTM ing and ure list L. Read some Wic ket buzz, som e Wicket blog Find out why s or Planet Wic you should use ket Wicket Check out som e selected exa mples in deta Take a look at our live com il or see them and many mor ponent referenc Go and downloa e in live acti e d Wicket. on Wicket is rele ased under the Apache License , Version 2.0. Comm

Welcome to Apache Wicket

unity meetin gs

Wiki Blogs Reference Vision JavaDocs

Releases
Wicket 1.3rc Wicket 1.2 Wicket 1.1 Wicket 1.0

Tool suppor t
IDE plugins

Developers
Reporting bug s Writing docs Building

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Nov 11, 200 7

Apache Wicket 1.3.0-rc1 is released!

This release is the first in a series of rele ase candidates until we feel confident to finalize Wicket 1.3. This

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Getting Wicket

Everybody gets the ultimate edition Includes:

sources projects examples

Currently 1.3-rc2 Or...

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Using maven to get Wicket

<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> <artifactId>wicket</artifactId> <version>1.3.0-rc2</version> </dependency>

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Agenda
What is Wicket? Wicket concepts Building a Wicket Application Q&A

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Concepts
Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Application

Main entry point for your web application Initialization Configuration Homepage Factories Configured in web.xml

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Concepts
Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Concepts
Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Concepts
Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Components

Encapsulate the programmatic manipulation of markup Render content in the response Receive events in the request
onClick, onSubmit

Lots of em:
Label, MultiLineLabel, TextField, PasswordTextField, Image, Link, AjaxLink, AjaxFallbackLink, Tree, BookmarkablePageLink, ListView, RepeatingView, PagingNavigator, Button, ...
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Components

Component has wicket:id Markup has same wicket:id Hierarchy must match

<h1 wicket:id=msg>Gets replaced</h1> new Label(msg, Hello, World!);

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Component: Link

<a href=# wicket:id=link>Click</a> Link link = new Link(link);

add(link);
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Component: Link

<a href=# wicket:id=link>Click</a> Link link = new Link(link) { @Override public void onClick() { // do something setResponsePage(new NewPage()); } }; add(link);
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Component: AjaxLink

<a href=# wicket:id=link>Click</a>

AjaxLink link = new AjaxLink(link) { public void onClick(AjaxRequestTarget t) { // do something

} }; add(link);
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Component: AjaxLink

<a href=# wicket:id=link>Click</a> someComponent.setOutputMarkupId(true); AjaxLink link = new AjaxLink(link) { public void onClick(AjaxRequestTarget t) { // do something t.addComponent(someComponent); t.appendJavaScript(Effects.fade(foo);); } };
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Component + Markup

Some components have own markup file

Page, Panel, Border

Put Java, markup and supporting files in same package on class path
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Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Behaviors

Plugins for components Change attributes of your components markup Add javascript events Add Ajax behavior
component.setOutputMarkupId(true); component.add( new AjaxSelfUpdatingBehavior(Duration.seconds(5)));

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Behaviors

link.add(new AbstractBehavior() { public void onComponentTag( Component component, ComponentTag tag) { tag.put(onclick, return confirm(Are you sure?);); } }); Output: <a href=... onclick=return confirm(....);>...</a>

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Concepts
Application Session RequestCycle Components Behaviors Models
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Models

Models bind your POJOs to Wicket components

Label Component

Model Model

"John"

Label Component

PropertyModel Model expression: "name"

Person Domain

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Java lazy binding sucks

Doesnt update: new Label(name, person.getName()) Null checks necessary: new Label(street, person.getAddress().getStreet())

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Models

PropertyModel:
new PropertyModel(p, name) new PropertyModel(p, address.street)

CompoundPropertyModel:
setModel(new CompoundPropertyModel(p)); add(new Label(name)); add(new Label(address.street));

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Agenda
What is Wicket? Wicket concepts Building a Wicket Application Q&A

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DEMO

Agenda
What is Wicket? Wicket concepts Building a Wicket Application Q&A

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Wicket in Action

Wicket in Action
Eelco Hillenius Martijn Dashorst ISBN: 1-932394-98-2 ~375 pages MEAP + E-book: $27.50 MEAP + Dead tree: $49.90

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Summary

Apache Wicket is:

a furry animal three sticks with stumps a component oriented web application framework

Just Java and HTML Easy Ajax Good testing support Great community

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Conclusion

Wicket is good for my sex life

Seriously, I also have a wife and kid. And the productivity gained from implementing in Wicket is unsurpassed. The extraordinary diagnostics available is worth it alone. OOP isn't bastardized within this framework, it is embraced... n n
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