You are software developer. If you are reading this that gives some high possibility that you work with java. I would ask you to recommend me some web framework which is easy to kick start, precise and mature enough to work on production environment. Additionally I don’t want to waste time on crawling in tons of xml-hell files and maintenance of application state and session. Maybe after some time for thinking you would give me an answer, but its not so easy to find any technology like this. I found it – Apache Wicket ; )
I started to read book just after running some tutorial application, so I expected some simple step-by-step guide which could help me to understand basic concepts. Book started to meet my expectations at 8th page - it is 1st with some ‘Wicket’ code, then authors slowly – but fast enough to not make readers sleepy – show how to build web application from scratch. There are a lot of examples with ‘not the best possible’ code which is then refactored, this gives guarantee of deep understanding of each subject.
Suprisingly I felt like getting into ‘flow’ while reading, which is hard to achieve in book about any technology. It’s a matter of taste if you are going to like authors style, but they for sure have some gift to share experience and knowledge with readers. In my personal opinion some chapters are not well arranged, there are subjects which are covered too late. Some concepts are shown too many times while others still fly in reader’s mind without explanation, however its very rare feeling and doesn’t disturb overall feeling.
I always expect the highest quality from Manning book every time I take it to my hands. Once again I am not disappointed. Great book, nice technology - after working with Cocoon, some tryouts with JSF - Wicket is like a cold beer in hot day :)
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