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Have you ever tried to pronounce a url generated by Wicket? It’s quite a tedious job and often end users want to have understandable url’s (even when that url has no meaning).

It’s is quite easy to get normal url’s in Wicket. In this article I’ll show you several solutions, the first two with plain Wicket and the final solution is with wicketstuff-annotations.

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On our latest project, My colleague Tjeerd Kaastra and I, have been using Wicket.
Since our GUI was so complex, and we had to write 100s of unit tests (a lot of corner cases), we sat down with our testers to find out how we should approach this. Because Our testers use Fitnesse to test both functional acceptance as well as regression tests, they test a lot of the code as well. So we thought, why not integrate the two and that is what we did.

This blog describes how to test Wicket applications using Fitnesse. It is about stretching the limits of the Wicket test components to do so. We will try to explain this by using a small example project we have created to illustrate things. This example project has been inspired on the new user wizard example by Eelco Hillenius. We adapted this example so that it uses Spring, because most apps use a backend system.

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Filed under: Ajax, Java, Spring, Testing, Wicket
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Consider the following senario: we want to display some data in a table like manner, and we want it to update when we click on a link or button. We do not want to do a complete page refresh, we want it in an ajax way. Also we would like the modify the css for each cell.

In wicket you can use a ListView iterate over a List of Objects and display them in a table like manner.
This blog describes how you can update ListView data and modify the css for each cell.
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Filed under: Ajax, Java, Wicket
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