Btw I found more stuff on the WicketBuilder that other chap was working on, seems progress has been made already, just a matter of integrating this project and the Grails integration code
Cheers Graeme jklappenbach wrote: > > On 5/17/07, graemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> No, I still believe it would be quite trivial to write a Wicket builder >> that >> would make creating Wicket component interfaces much simpler in Groovy. >> Something like Groovy's current SwingBuilder system: >> >> http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2004/10/gdgroovy_basic_swingbuilder.html > > > I stand corrected. I was under the assumption that a "builder" approach > would require that the Wicket API be rewritten in Groovy, as I thought you > were demonstrating during our initial discussions on a builder approach. > > It is just about investing the time to build this. As to what you get by >> using Grails and Wicket together, well you essentially get an ORM system >> built right in that follows a convention-over-configuration approach and >> supports dynamic finders and is built on Hibernate >> (http://grails.org/GORM >> ) >> >> You also get support for Grails' entire plug-in eco-system including >> things >> like Quartz, Compass, XFire, Spring Remoting, Acegi etc. See >> http://grails.org/Plugins > > > Thinking alike, I just posted something on this. > > My only concern with the current implementation is that it requires a > server >> restart when you make any changes to the Wicket Application class or >> components. This goes against the "Grails Way" which promotes agile, >> iterative development and really ideally we would need to find a way, at >> least in development mode, to refresh the Wicket Application instance >> when >> the Groovy classes change so get automatic reloading >> >> PS One correction is that Grails is not part of the RoR family or in >> anyway >> related to Rails or a port of Rails. It is built from the ground up on >> solid >> Java technologies like Spring & Hibernate > > > [Scratches head]... OK, fine by me. > > -jjk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gricket%3A-The-Love-Child-of-Grails-and-Wicket-tf3772804.html#a10679581 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
