Clustering wicket apps
After fooling around with other methods, we finally accepted the advice I got on the Wicket IRC channel and used Terracotta to cluster our Wicket-based apps running under Jetty. It… Read more »
Category: Java
Deploying with Continuum and Maven
We are now deploying to our staging servers from our Maven repository using wget (the url is like ‘http://maven:8080/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect? r=snapshots&g=com.armstrongconsulting.controlcenter.server &a=controlcenterwebapp&v=LATEST&e=jar&c=jar-with-dependencies’.). The runnable jars (or wars) in the Maven repository… Read more »
Wicket and focus
Our first approach was to create a DefaultFocusBehavior (as described by Julian Sinai) and attach it to the component which should receive the focus. The problem with this is that… Read more »
A Wicket form validator for a list of email addresses
I needed to validate a list of email addresses entered into a Wicket text area (a cc: list of email addresses). To do this, I created a simple form validator… Read more »
Installing JRebel
We just started using JRebel on a wicket project with hibernate and Spring. JRebel (formerly known as JavaRebel) provides true hot-swap development under Eclipse – i.e. you never have to… Read more »
“label for” in wicket panels
Labels for checkboxes weren’t working as I expected in wicket panels (i.e. when I clicked the label, the checkbox didn’t react). Looking at the output html I saw that the… Read more »
Annotated constraints
We were wondering how to use Hibernate annotations to automatically create constraints (HTML “maxlength”) and validators (required fields, string length validation). After searching around, I found a wicket behavior for… Read more »
Wicket PasswordTextField with Strength
I implemented a simple extension of the wicket PasswordTextField which provides you with an indication of the strength of the entered password (using regular expressions and returning “empty”, “weak”, “medium”… Read more »
Keeping your database schemas in sync with your model
Hibernate’s hbm2ddl.auto setting allows you to create, update, and validate a database schemas based on the mapping configuration. The create & update settings are great in development environments, since they… Read more »
Adding scripting to java applications
Many of our applications require scripting support (allowing users to create scripts to customize workflow within the application). Java provides very straightforward scripting via the javax.script script-engine library. A simple integration… Read more »