Wow.. it is 2009 and it looks like it is going to be a interesting year in general as well as on the Java side of things. And on the VIJUG side we are starting with a great presentation about Apache Wicket by a local. How cool is that!
- Where:
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Vancouver Island Technology Park, Conference Center Room – 4464 Markham Street, Victoria, BC - When:
- Thursday, 22th January 2009, 18:00-20:00
- Presentation:
- Web Development with Wicket presented by Doug Bateman
Wicket is an excellent component based framework for developing web apps in Java. In this 2 hours presentation you will get a chance to write a couple of simple wickets applications, and look at some of the key features of wicket. The presentation is hands on so bring your laptop if you want to type and run code. Some of the key questions this presentation will answer are
- What is wicket?
- What is a component based framework and how are component based
frameworks different than action based frameworks. - Differences between Wicket and JSF
- Some of the key features of wicket
Doug will also be able to answer and further questions about Wicket.
- Presenter:
- Doug Bateman
- Goodies:
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We will raffle off a personal license for IntelliJ IDEA sponsored by JetBrains. 
as well as some JUG T-shirts sponsored by Sun Microsystems. 
In addition we will give away the book The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets provided by Apress for a review. 
- Who:
- All VIJUG members and anybody else interested are welcome to attend. If you intend to come please send an email or register with the Facebook event or just show up.
We hope to meet you there.
VIJUG Team
Against the odds and numbers in attendance we had a great meeting. Doug got held up by BC Ferries and only made it to the venue towards 19:30, but in the end we had a long presentation that all of us thoroughly enjoyed. Wicket is certainly different. It seems to manage to strike and interesting compromise between power and complexity is definitely worth a look. Doug has kindly agreed to be available for questions (doug@dougbateman.net) and Adib Sakali is willing to provide a beta release of a training material for Wicket to anybody interested as well. The presentation was based on that training material and certainly have us a good primer.
Before Dougs arrival we had various conversations about embedded Java and a few other topics
After the presentation we raffled of the IntelliJ license to Jianping Roth and gave away the T-shirts and the book as well. Everybody got something out of the meeting. Maybe you should come next time
Please email Adib if you want to the a copy of the training material about Wicket at