Posts Tagged ‘java’

What I hate about Wicket Framework

This post describes my opinion about Wicket framework.
Wicket is a component-based Java web framework from Apache that is gaining some popularity. Like most component-based web frameworks, Wicket is harder to learn than controller-to-view frameworks (Request-based) like Grails, Stripes, Servlets/JSP, Rails etc., but it offers more features and is more focused on the state of HTML [...]

Wicket – Sending a 301 redirect

This post describes how to send a HTTP 301 redirect in the Java Wicket Framework.
HTTP redirect intro
There are two types of HTTP redirects:
-”HTTP 1.1 301 Moved Permanently”
-”HTTP 1.1 302 Found”, previously called “HTTP 1.1 302 Moved Temporarily”
A 301 indicates that the requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any [...]

Struts2 table annoyance

I was trying out a bit of Struts 2 just to test it out. An annoyance that quickly came up is that the HTML layout of forms are all table based. For example, if you want an input field for your name, then a column-based HTML table will be created automatically for that. The first [...]