Wicket in Action

392 Pages·2008·10.95 MB·English

by  Martijn Dashorst

Wicket in Action

Wicket in Action
MARTIJN DASHORST
EELCO HILLENIUS
MANNING
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In memory of Maurice Marrink—a friend of ours
and a friend of Wicket, right from the start

brief contents
PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH WICKET...................................1
1 ■ What is Wicket? 3
2 ■ The architecture of Wicket 24
3 ■ Building a cheesy Wicket application 45
PART 2 INGREDIENTS FOR YOUR WICKET APPLICATIONS...........79
4 ■ Understanding models 81
5 ■ Working with components:
labels, links, and repeaters 106
6 ■ Processing user input using forms 139
7 ■ Composing your pages 173
PART 3 GOING BEYOND WICKET BASICS.................................197
8 ■ Developing reusable components 199
9 ■ Images, CSS, and scripts: working with resources 223
10 ■ Rich components and Ajax 238
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viii BRIEF CONTENTS
PART 4 PREPARING FOR THE REAL WORLD..............................265
11 ■ Securing your application 267
12 ■ Conquer the world with l10n and i18n 282
13 ■ Multitiered architectures 299
14 ■ Putting your application into production 321
contents
foreword xvii
preface xix
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiii
PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH WICKET.........................1
1 What is Wicket? 3
1.1 How we got here 4
A developer’s tale 4 ■ What problems does Wicket solve? 5
1.2 Wicket in a nutshell 10
Just Java 11 ■ Just HTML 12 ■ The right abstractions 13
1.3 Have a quick bite of Wicket 14
Hello, uhm … World! 15 ■ Having fun with links 17
The Wicket echo application 21
1.4 Summary 23
2 The architecture of Wicket 24
2.1 How Wicket handles requests 25
Request-handling objects 25 ■ The processing steps involved in
request handling 29 ■ Thread-safety 31
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