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The Java Developer’sGuide to WebDevelopmentFrameworks

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Java Web Developmentthe Wicket Way

Daniel Carleton

Struts to Stripes — A RoadWorth Traveling

Rick Smith

Rapid Java Web ApplicationDevelopment with Tapestry

John Ferguson Smart

Face Up to Web ApplicationDesign Using JSF andMyFaces

Javid Jamae

Simplify Your Web AppDevelopment Using theSpring MVC Framework

Javid Jamae

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The Java Developer's Guide to Web Development Frameworks

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he Web application frameworks available todayoffer a wealth of development styles. Well-known Web development technologies such asJavaServer Faces, ASP.NET, and the Google WebToolkit use event-driven, component-oriented designsthat resemble traditional GUI programming. Thisapproach makes sense as Webapplications become more likedesktop applications in sophisti-cation and functionality all thetime. However, many of theseframeworks can be unwieldy,requiring heavy tool supportand having steep learningcurves. Also, the mingling of code and markup often chal-lenges testability, refactoring,and separation of concerns. AJava Web application frameworkcalled Wicket takes a light-weight approach to the compo-nent-oriented model to over-come these and other chal-lenges.At its core, Wicket is a Java framework for processingmarkup. It represents Web applications, each page inthem, and each component on each page as classes.Wicket then uses a simple naming convention to asso-ciate the classes responsible for dynamically manipulat-ing markup with HTML files via the classpath. Thesefiles are truly just plain HTML — validating documentsdevoid of JavaServer Pages (JSP)-style "tag soup," andfreely editable by designers.With markup processing as itsbase, Wicket extends to supportall aspects of modern Web appli-cation development by heavilyand effectively using the compos-ite and visitor patterns, as well aswell-conceived inheritance hierar-chies and interfaces.Using test-driven design to devel-op a FileDropoff applicationexample, this article illustratesWicket's approach to testability,authentication and authorization,form handling, page nesting, fileuploads with progress feedback,and the classic back-button problem. Throughout thedevelopment steps, the example highlights noteworthypieces of code and describes what's going on behind

The Java Developer's Guide to Web Development Frameworks

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Java Web Development the Wicket Way

By Daniel Carleton

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A Java Web application framework called Wicket takes alightweight approach to the component-oriented model toovercome these and other challenges.

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