Nov 28 2007

Bleeding Edge Transactional Wicket Web Applications with Warp and Guice

Tag: guice, hibernate, java, learning, spring, warp, wicket — pmularien @ 8:47 pm

One of the reasons that I think Spring has become so popular in web applications is that there simply hasn’t been another widespread web application stack that (1) is free, (2) is not Java EE, and (3) doesn’t involve JSF.

Wicket (which I’ve written about in passing before) is a great component-based web framework that integrates nicely with Spring (and therefore Hibernate and/or JPA), making it a great choice for a web stack that looks like this:

  • Wicket [web tier]
  • Spring [transactional / business tier]
  • Hibernate [data access tier]

But what other choice is there for a transactional / business layer if you (for whatever reason) don’t want to use Spring?

Fortunately, Dhanji Prasanna has been hard at work on a transactional framework for Guice called warp-persist.

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