Tag Archives: Java

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 | 4 Comments

How to: 10000 photos from Adobe Photoshop Album 2 to Picasa

If you’re (un)fortunate enough to have your entire photo collection stored in the now-ancient Adobe Photoshop Album 2, you’re going to be rather stuck. In theory, it should be possible to do “backup” operation from Album 2.0 and import into … Continue reading

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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

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged guides, Java, ui, web, wicket | 3 Comments

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

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, tips, web, wicket | 2 Comments