Making Apache Wicket even more designer friendly

  Hi, my name is Juliano Viana, I'm a software consultant and developer based in Brazi, and I've been honored with the opportunity to blog in Java.net! Hope I can contribute something to this great community resource. For my first blog post at Java.net I've choosen to write about my web framework of choice, Apache Wicket. A designer and developer friendly framework Wicket is a great web framework - it allows the creation of complex web interfaces, complete with fancy ajax effects, in a simple and straigthforward way. The best Apache Wicket feature is in my oppinion the total separation between markup and business logic.A Web Designer working in an Apache Wicket project will probably never see a line of Java code, and the Developers can work on mock interfaces and be certain that when the time comes to make it look great the designers will be able to style it without any hassle. Another feature I find extremely useful in Wicket is the page markup inheritance concept. In Wicket every page is a Java class that extends org.apache.wicket.Page.  Each page has also an associated HTML file containing the page markup.Wicket allows one to create base pages that contain your web site main markup and common funcionality (such as heder, footer, CSS files , analytics scripts, login area, search area, language selection box etc.). One can then create specialized pages that inherit this common layout from the bas...

Date: February, 09 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/02/04/dynamic-pages-wicket

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