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 Great Wicket Started Book but doesn't end there Jan 09, 2009
This book is a great Wicket starter book... It is aimed at the Eclipse IDE, but with a little web reading, you can work through the book using Netbeans.
I wanted a book that didn't assume understanding another framework, just a little html and Plain Old Java. This book was it. I got another Wicket book, but it assume a certain level beyond a wicket beginner.
This book goes through step by step and explains things very well. There is a different teaching style, but I think it is nice. You should download the first three chapters (PDF) from his website, just to make sure you like the style, but I think you will.
Great book Nov 26, 2008
Great introduction to Wicket. You might be better off with the PDF version (which you can download from the author's website) since you can copy and paste the code as you try out the examples.
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Easy start book for wicket Jul 16, 2008
This book is currently the best among wicket books. The tutorial style will get you going and for someone able to construct the rudimentary examples in the book, the next steps should not be too bad. Dont expect the small apps in the book to be like real life sites. They are simple and are directed towards grasping one or two concepts. Pages filled with summaries could be avoided, no one is taking tests. If you want to learn this framework and you have a lot of java web exposure, this book is for you.
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 the worst technical book I've ever read Jul 09, 2008
this book is so bad, I don't even know where to start. I've read many technical books, and used many more as a reference. This book is good for neither. Here are some of the major problems/examples of what's wrong with it (by no means a complete list):
-- there is very little text. There are many, many redundant screen shots of what one would see in the browser if one ran the code. Instead of explaining what goes on, the author uses ugly and hard to follow state transition diagrams. I've never seen anything like this, not even in a worst design spec written by an intern.
-- there are no explanations of how things work. None. Ok, I don't really care about the guts of Wicket in too much detail, but I need an idea of what is going on. Even the code examples that ship with Wicket do a better job.
-- I am not sure who the author thinks his audience is. Instead of describing the threading model of Wicket, he goes into a long and unpleasant example of a race condition involving a database. Is he aiming at someone who hasn't dealt with threads, and yet is developing a website? Well, I doubt his crash course on race conditions is going to be much help to them. And he does nothing to answer questions about threading and Wicket.
-- he doesn't address any basic concepts that one needs to deal with when implementing a website. Just some very basic examples that he goes through in a very unorganized and confusing way. And forget about using this book as a reference -- open it to any page, and all you see are screen shots and diagrams.
Ok, enough ranting. Off to the Wicket website to get some real information. This book is raising my blood pressure.
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For people who want to get going with Wicket Jul 01, 2008
I bought a couple of books on Wicket when I first started learning it, and Enjoying Web Development with Wicket was by far the best one. It is task oriented, and systematically builds up on the development of a web application. If you are already familiar with Java and web technologies, this book will get you very rapidly ramped up on Wicket, and answer your most commonly asked questions as you go along.
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