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I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
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Category Archives: Software Engineering
visural-wicket 0.6.5 release is available!
It’s taken longer than I’d hoped, but the next release of the visural-wicket library for Apache Wicket is now available – 0.6.5 This version is mostly a minor enhancement and fix release, but includes almost 6 months worth of patches … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket
Tagged Java, open-source, releases, visural-wicket, web, wicket
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Implementing a “Draft Mode” with Apache Wicket Forms
A question came up on wicket-users recently about whether it’s possible to implement a form in Wicket whereby you can bypass the validation temporarily so that users could save prior to submitting the form. Think something along the lines of … Continue reading
Getting a non-relative (absolute) URL for a Wicket page
Just a quick Wicket tid-bit I found today – generally with Wicket, when you create a BookmarkablePageLink or use “urlFor(…)“, the resulting URL is stated as a relative path, e.g. “../../something/mypage” (i.e. those that contain “..”). Sometimes you need to … Continue reading
Guice / Java IoC best practices – using annotations for configuration
18 months ago I introduced Guice 2.0 into my workplace development team. So far it has been doing a good job of making inversion of control / dependency injection approachable, light-weight and helpful for the whole team. The biggest issue … Continue reading
