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Tag Archives: wicket
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
Where Does Wicket Store It’s DiskPageStore Files?
Wicket stores everything other than the current Page for a given user’s session (by default) in a second-level disk-based session cache. I’d never looked much into how it worked, until I wanted to know where these files were located. The … Continue reading
LessCSS available in Java and Wicket – less.js
For the uninitiated, LessCSS is a powerful extension of CSS, that adds variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. What this means is the ability to remove the repetition and redundancy which almost always pops up in CSS for complex web … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket
Tagged css, Java, ui, visural-wicket, web, wicket
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visural-wicket 0.6 released – lots of new components!
It’s been roughly 4 months since the first public release of visural-wicket, a set of open-source components and tools for the Apache Wicket web framework. Since then the project has seen 150+ developer downloads and a generally very positive reaction … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket
Tagged Java, open-source, releases, visural-wicket, wicket
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