xaloon / wicket components

Learn xaloon - Part 2. New features and improvements

xaloon 1.5 version was re architectured drastically. Now it has more flexibility, developer can easily change configuration and default implementation if required.

Learn xaloon - Part 1. Overview

xaloon is an application development and integration tool for apache wicket. Main focus of xaloon is to start wicket development easily with predefined requirements. Maven archetypes provide an easy way to generate a project template with built-in modules, such as spring, JPA, security, dynamic menu, automatic page mounting and other features. xaloon core api provides common interfaces which are used in mostly all applications. xaloon plugins provide additional functionality and tool extensibility features.

Xaloon for Apache Wicket 1.5.0 final version is released

Good news! New release, major changes and other things on the way!

Xaloon for Apache Wicket 1.5.0-RC3 released

Bug fixes, improvements and other good things are on your way! This is the last RC before releasing 1.5.0 version.

Xaloon for Apache Wicket 1.5.0-RC2 released

Bug fixes, improvements and other good things are on your way!

XIP-W 1.5.0-RC1 released

Finally there is a progress made regarding new version of XIP-W (xaloon integration platform for Wicket). New architecture, new design and new flexibility :) 

Upcomming xaloon 1.5 architecture

@Deprecated

What to expect from xaloon components in next version?
What new architecture will be?
What new features will it have?
Will it meet my requirements?

introducing wicket, xaloon based production site

After hard work we are proud to present another wicket+xaloon based website in production - www.allcarindex.com

xaloon components 1.3 released

@Deprecated

New version of xaloon components released after some time !

Easy xaloon components startup wich Apache Maven archetypes

Short description how to create startup web application with maven xaloon archetype

Short vacation in Madeira

Some photos to share after short vacation in Madeira :)

Xaloon SignIn panel for Apache Wicket - Login via Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo

@Deprecated

Don't want to store customer's password? Do not want to create new profile in order just to post a comment? This is a panel to enable authentication via various third party sites.

We will discuss here how to add signin panel into existing wicket application and get authenticated via facebook, google, linkedin, twitter and yahoo.

Wicket based BRIX CMS from developer point of view

@Deprecated

BRIX is an Open Source, Wicket-based CMS for java platform. Based on JCR, it is simple yet powerful and extensible.It has plugin architecture, tiles, templates, prototypes, snapshots, rich content editing and other features. But how good is BRIX CMS for me? Short review of BRIX CMS from developer point of view.

Generating DDL Scripts from JPA Annotations

An easy way to generate DDL from JPA annotations using org.xaloon.wicket.component.mounting.PageAnnotatedScanner. You provide only parent package name and all sub packages will be processed in order to get all dependencies between entities.

Xaloon sports betting - open source sports component for Apache Wicket

@Deprecated

We would like to announce the release of xaloon sports betting component for Apache Wicket: first open source component of sports betting. This version is not prepared for real money betting, but it has such features as sport team management panel, event management panel, sports calendar and others.

Writing and injecting dynamic plugins into your Apache Wicket application

@Deprecated

Let's say you have a written a web portal/application. You already have layout of your site. But there is a new requirement - you have to write independent component, which should be injected into your existing application. Application does not know about this component anything; component does not know about application anything. How to make them work together? To make it more complext - add another requirement - every component should have it's own link and should be injected into existing menu. This article will cover this case from Wicket perspective.

Integrating Spring, JPA, Apache wicket into Google Application Engi

@Deprecated

There are many examples how to create simple Wicket applications for Google application engine without Spring, JPA support. I would like to share how to create fully working application with JPA, Spring, Spring Transactions and Apache Wicket.

File storage under Wicket using Apache Jackrabbit

@Deprecated

Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API. We will discuss how to integrate Apache Jackrabbit as file repository into Apache Wicket in this article.

Using reCAPTCHA with Apache Wicket

@Deprecated

Sometimes you need to protect your data from spam or auto submit. Apache wicket has default implementation of captcha, but you may try something different.

Advanced Apache Wicket tabs with jQuery

@Deprecated

Default wicket tab implementation validates only active tab. Sometimes there are requirements that tabs should be validated only on form submit. Also if there are many tabs, maybe we do not want them all to be loaded at once. How to deal with such requirements?

Apache Wicket issues on Google App Engine

@Deprecated

You should be familiar with basics of Apache Wicket on Google App Engine. Startup is fine, but if you are trying to make something more complex - then you might get some troubles.