If you'd like to create AJAX web-based applications easily, then this book is for you. More importantly, it shows you how to do that with joy and feel good about your own work! You don't need to know servlet or JSP while your productivity will be much higher than using servlet or JSP directly. This is possible because we're going to use a library called Wicket that makes complicated stuff simple and elegant.
How does it do that? First, it allows the web designer to work on the static contents and design of a page while allowing the developer to work on the dynamic contents of that page without stepping on each other's toes; Second, it allows developers to work with high level concepts such as objects and properties instead of HTTP URLs, query parameters or HTML string values; Third, it comes with powerful components such as calendar, tree and data grid and it allows you to create your own components for reuse in your own project.
However, don't take our word for it! This book will quickly walk you through real world use cases to show you how to use Wicket and leave it up to you to judge.
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Chapter 1 Getting Started with Wicket |
Chapter 9 Providing a Common Layout |
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Chapter 2 Using Forms |
Chapter 10 Using Javascript |
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Chapter 3 Validating Input |
Chapter 11 Unit Testing Wicket Pages |
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Chapter 4 Creating an e-Shop |
Chapter 12 Developing Robust, Scalable & Maintainable 3-tier Applications |
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Chapter 5 Building Interactive Pages with AJAX |
Chapter 13 Using Spring in Wicket |
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Chapter 6 Supporting Other Languages |
Chapter 14 Using JPA & Hibernate in Wicket |
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Chapter 7 Using the DataTable Component |
Chapter 15 Deploying a Wicket application |
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Chapter 8 Handling File Downloads and Uploads |
A more detailed TOC is here. The following topics are not found in other books on Wicket:
This book is suitable for those learning how to develop web-based applications and those who are experienced in servlet, JSP, Struts and would like to see if Wicket can make their jobs easier.
In order to understand what's in the book, you need to know Java, HTML and some simple SQL. However, you do NOT need to know servlet, JSP, Tomcat, Spring, JPA or Hibernate.
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Ka Iok Kent Tong is the manager of the IT department of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center. With a Master degree in Computer Science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia and having won the "Macao Programming Competition (Open Category)" in 1992, Mr. Tong has been involved in professional software development, training and project management since 1993. He is the author of several popular books on web technologies including Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry and Developing Web Services with Apache Axis.
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