JSF vs Wicket, Job Opportunities
Posted by cagataycivici on February 24, 2008
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February 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Yep, you gott 2 things right:
- the only people talking about wicket are it’s developers
- it’s not really worth our time
And here’s a third fact:
- Their devs like to troll
February 25, 2008 at 4:12 am
I think that it would be pretty naive to think that Wicket would be in much of a different market share position than this indicates. The marketing behind JSF is fairly high volume. Wicket does have a small user base, and believe it or not, most of its users are not core developers.
As to whether it is worth your time, that really just depends on what you are trying to do. I tend to use it for personal projects where I do all of the development and I can pick a framework based purely on which one is the most fun to code in. But if you are picking a framework to learn based on what will make your resume more marketable, Wicket certainly isn’t the first choice.
I don’t really buy the idea that their devs troll any more than any other group. I haven’t really seen trolling from them, and they’ve all been quite nice even when I have had negative things to say about the framework.
February 25, 2008 at 6:59 am
>> “As developers we have to update ourselves regularly on new stuff but is wicket really worth our time?”
Please have a look at how easy it is to work with wicket.An example is custom components.
I just finished working on a wicket project(now live) over the last one year. Believe me,
it was really fun and enjoyable to work with. Regarding its popularity, one can make a smart
guess by looking at the traffic in wicket forums. There can be various factors behind
job trends for a particular technology.To brand wicket with statements like the ones u have mentioned is just incorrect. On the basis of what you have mentioned,I believe one should simply
stick to struts rather than JSF -:)
I even learnt JSF to see whether it was worth the effort. I am not sure whether I chose the wrong book or not. BUT reading custom component development from Complete Reference- it was really shocking to see the difficulty one has to go through to develop own components.
I can even say that developing in Wicket has improved my OO skills.
February 25, 2008 at 10:34 am
@Swaroop, developing custom components is a piece of cake in JSF, see this post, it takes around 5 minutes to create an input slider.
http://cagataycivici.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/create_a_jsf_slider_in/