In the last three months I’ve been learning a lot about the Java programming language. After ‘graduating’ on my Sun Certified Java Programmer-certificate and the Sun Certified Web Components Developer-certificate, I’ve had some time to decide which platform or framework I’d like to learn next. The choice was between front-end development and back-end development.
Today I’ve managed to skim the surface of two frameworks: Wicket and Hibernate. Wicket is a front-end component framework for the Java programming language. I’ve managed to read up some of the pages of the wiki and got some examples to work on my own tomcat server. My first impressions of this framework are quite ok; it takes way less time to actually get a simple webapp up and running as you don’t have to setup a big amount of XML files. You simply extend some of the classes or interfaces provided to you by the Wicket framework and you’re ready to go.
I always had a thing for webapps as opposed to the development of desktop applications. In my opinion a true webapp is powerless without access to a database. Although I’m a bit more interested in front-end development (and in this case, Wicket), i found myself installing the HSQLDB-server which is prescribed in a hibernate tutorial. I’m yet to discover the benefits of the hibernate framework, as time was flying by while reading today. I’ll be updating this post tomorrow, hopefully with pleasant findings on another framework :).
To be continued…
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#1 by Eefje - January 28th, 2008 at 21:17
It’s looking good! (And now I’m not the only one alternating between laguages. ;))
#2 by Ronald van Zuijlen - January 28th, 2008 at 22:02
True. I might just write all my blogs in english from now on. I like it :). About the graphics: it’s still a work in progress…
#3 by Mattijs - January 29th, 2008 at 13:05
Very nice to see you picking up wicket, it rocks!
If I’m allowed to say this, knowing you quite well, I don’t see you programming Hibernate, so why waste your time on it? You already have so little of it.
But hey, that’s my critical look on it
#4 by Coen - February 5th, 2008 at 21:52
Although I’m not so into the wicket and hibernate stuff (my interest lays elsewhere ;)) I’m interested in what your opinion will be about hibernate, so I will be back tomorrow (but erhhm tomorrow was meant to be January the 29th, wasn’t it?)
Anyway, keep up the good work!
#5 by Jos van Reenen - February 6th, 2008 at 09:44
I’m intrigued, Ronald is picking up an international blogging-career? Now that’s fancy, even your menu has changed. Well, I guess it’s a good thing… Good luck with updating this blog, I hope to follow your lifes story on and on.
Kind regards, Jos