Apache Wicket

Apache Wicket
Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation
Stable release 7.0 / July 28, 2015 (2015-07-28)[1]
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform (Java Virtual Machine)
Type Web application framework
License Apache License 2.0
Website wicket.apache.org

Apache Wicket, commonly referred to as Wicket, is a lightweight component-based web application framework for the Java programming language conceptually similar to JavaServer Faces and Tapestry. It was originally written by Jonathan Locke in April 2004. Version 1.0 was released in June 2005. It graduated into an Apache top-level project in June 2007.[2]

Rationale

Traditional model-view-controller (MVC) frameworks work in terms of whole requests and whole pages. In each request cycle, the incoming request is mapped to a method on a controller object, which then generates the outgoing response in its entirety, usually by pulling data out of a model to populate a view written in specialized template markup. This keeps the application's flow-of-control simple and clear, but can make code reuse in the controller difficult.

In contrast, Wicket is closely patterned after stateful GUI frameworks such as Swing. Wicket applications are trees of components, which use listener delegates to react to HTTP requests against links and forms in the same way that Swing components react to mouse and keystroke events. Wicket is categorized as a component-based framework.

Design

Wicket uses plain XHTML for templating (which enforces a clear separation of presentation and business logic and allows templates to be edited with conventional WYSIWYG design tools[3]). Each component is bound to a named element in the XHTML and becomes responsible for rendering that element in the final output. The page is simply the top-level containing component and is paired with exactly one XHTML template. Using a special tag, a group of individual components may be abstracted into a single component called a panel, which can then be reused whole in that page, other pages, or even other panels.

Each component is backed by its own model, which represents the state of the component. The framework does not have knowledge of how components interact with their models, which are treated as opaque objects automatically serialized and persisted between requests. More complex models, however, may be made detachable and provide hooks to arrange their own storage and restoration at the beginning and end of each request cycle. Wicket does not mandate any particular object-persistence or ORM layer, so applications often use some combination of Hibernate objects, EJBs or POJOs as models.

In Wicket, all server side state is automatically managed. You should never directly use an HttpSession object or similar wrapper to store state. Instead, state is associated with components. Each server-side page component holds a nested hierarchy of stateful components, where each component’s model is, in the end, a POJO (Plain Old Java Object)

Wicket is all about simplicity. There are no configuration files to learn in Wicket. Wicket is a simple class library with a consistent approach to component structure.

Example

A Hello World Wicket application, with four files:

HelloWorld.html
The XHTML template.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
      xmlns:wicket="http://wicket.apache.org/dtds.data/wicket-xhtml1.3-strict.dtd"
      xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 

<body>
    <span wicket:id="message" id="message">Message goes here</span>
</body>
</html>
HelloWorld.java
The page component that will be bound to the template. It, in turn, binds a child component (the Label component named "message").
package org.wikipedia.wicket;

import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.WebPage;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label;

public class HelloWorld extends WebPage {
    /**
     * Constructor
     */
    public HelloWorld() {
        add(new Label("message", "Hello World!"));
    }
}
HelloWorldApplication.java
The main application class, which routes requests for the homepage to the HelloWorld page component.
package org.wikipedia.wicket;

import org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WebApplication;

public class HelloWorldApplication extends WebApplication {
    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public HelloWorldApplication() {
    }

    /**
     * @see org.apache.wicket.Application#getHomePage()
     */
    public Class getHomePage() {
        return HelloWorld.class;
    }
}
web.xml
The servlet application Deployment Descriptor, which installs Wicket as the default handler for the servlet and arranges for HelloWorldApplication to be instantiated at startup.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
         xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" 
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" 
         id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    <display-name>Wicket Example</display-name>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>HelloWorldApplication</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>applicationClassName</param-name>
            <param-value>org.wikipedia.wicket.HelloWorldApplication</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>HelloWorldApplication</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

Components

Releases

Release Date Notes
1.3.7 2009-07-30 [4]
1.4 2009-07-30 " ... a departure from the past where we leave Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum JDK version. By moving to Java 5 as the required minimum platform, we were able to utilize Java 5 idioms and increase the type safety of our APIs." [5]
1.4.1 2009-08-21 [6]
1.4.9 2010-05-24 "... over fifteen bug fixes and improvements" [7]
1.4.10 2010-08-11 "... over thirty bug fixes and improvements." [8]
1.4.16 2011-02-25 "This is primarily a minor bugfix release on the 1.4.x (stable) branch." [9]
1.4.17 2011-04-02 "This is primarily a minor bugfix release on the 1.4.x (stable) branch." [10]
1.4.18 2011-08-09 "This is primarily a minor bugfix release on the 1.4.x (stable) branch." [11]
1.4.19 2011-10-19 "This is primarily a minor bugfix release on the 1.4.x (stable) branch." [12]
1.5.0 2011-09-07 "Apache Wicket 1.5 has been in development for the last two years and brings many improvements over previous versions." [13]
1.5.1 2011-09-29 "... over 40 bug fixes and 15 improvements."[14]
1.5.2 2011-10-24 "... over 25 bug fixes and 5 improvements."[15]
1.5.3 2011-11-14 "... over 40 bug fixes and improvements."[16]
1.6 2012-09-05 Out-of-the box jQuery integration, complete control over AJAX requests, improved event registration in browsers, support for large datasets, dependency management for client side JavaScript libraries, experimental support for websockets
1.6.3 2013-01-02 jQuery 1.8.2; fixed JavaScript errors in IE7 and IE8.
1.6.4 2013-01-14 jQuery 1.8.3, bootstrap 2.2.2, JSR 303 BeanValidation support, Hierarchical feedback panel

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket 7.0 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2015-01-27.
  2. ↑ Dashorst, Martijn (2007-07-20). "Wicket graduates from Apache Incubation". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  3. ↑ Carleton, Daniel (2007-10-12). "Java Web Development the Wicket Way". DevX. Archived from the original on 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  4. ↑ Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket 1.3.7 marks end of life for Wicket 1.3. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived January 5, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket 1.4 takes typesafety to the next level. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13.
  6. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.1 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived September 22, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.9 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.10 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived April 25, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.16 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived April 25, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.17 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.18 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.4.19 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket releases Wicket 1.5. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.5.1 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived October 6, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ Apache Wicket - Wicket 1.5.2 released. Wicket.apache.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-13. Archived November 1, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑

External links

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Blogs

Documentation

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