Presentation about Apache Wicket web frontend framework.

1. Apache Wicket
Mediatel deployment, Wicket introduction
jPrase
Vít Kotačka
17. 6. 2009
© Adastra Group

2. Agenda
 Mediatel project
 Conception
 Components
 Models
 AJAX
 Resources
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3. Mediatel project
 Wicket
 iBATIS
 Spring (Spring Security, Spring-iBATIS)
 Oracle
 Maven, CVS, Continuum
Ataccama MMC WWW
ETL Oracle Book
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4. Conception
 Built on Servlet API
 Stateful
 Component-based framework
̶ Swing
̶ Trees of components
̶ Listeners process HTTP requests
̶ Component has model
̶ Models are serialized (between requests)
̶ No request/respons handling (no controller, no action class)
 Component
̶ Java component class
̶ XHTML template
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5. Components
 Application
 Page
 Panel
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6. Models
 Holds a value for a component
 Serialized in the session
 Implement IModel
 Simple models
 Property models
 Resource models
 Detachable models
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7. AJAX
 AjaxRequestTarget builds the response
 Ajax components
̶ AjaxLink
̶ AjaxButton
̶ AjaxCheckBox
̶ AutoCompleteTextField
 Ajax behavior
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8. Resources
 Wicket in Action, Martijn Dashorst, Eelco Hillenius
 Component reference http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13/compref/
 Wicket examples http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13/
 Repeater views http://www.wicket-library.com/wicket-
examples/repeater/
 Ajax examples http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13/ajax/
 How to do things in Wicket
http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/how-to-do-things-in-
wicket.html
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