Embedded Jetty instead of Tomcat
I recently used embedded Jetty for a small REST server project and it was a revelation. It took exactly no time to get it running and now I can deploy… Read more »
JDBC vs IBATIS vs Hibernate
Christoph has spent the last couple of weeks refactoring a web project to use IBATIS instead of Hibernate. I also refactored a smaller project to use IBATIS instead of JDBC…. Read more »
LDAPAuthentication with Active Directory
Here’s something I had to piece together myself from various code fragments. Its a class to authenticate a user in Windows Active Directory environment using LDAP. It first locates the… Read more »
Adding an activity monitor to your wicket application
Sometimes its useful in an application to have a list of users who are currently logged onto an application on a server. To do this, you first need a SessionAttributeListener… Read more »
How to display images in Wicket
For someone starting out with Wicket, it can be tricky to figure out basic things like how to display images. Here are basic three scenarios: 1. Simple fixed image –… Read more »
Milestone – a full virtual Asterisk phone system
About four years ago, we switched our office phone system from a proprietary ISDN PBX to Asterisk with Cisco 7940 handsets. It was an instant success and has been running… 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 »
Wicket component strings
Wicket components have a convenient getString method to load a (translatable string from a properties file associated with the component (or any component in its hierarchy). It also allows you… Read more »
Using the HTML TBODY tag as a container for table rows
A common issue which Wicket developers face is the need for an AJAX update of the HTML output of a repeater (such as a ListView) which is part of a… Read more »
Form fields within a Wicket TabbedPanel
Here’s something which took me several days to figure out. If you have form fields within a TabbedPanel (or AjaxTabbedPanel), how do you ensure that they get validated and submitted… Read more »