Being quite the Wicket slut these days, I have to admit that a book about my favorite web  framework is exciting to see.  It reinforces what I already know, Wicket rocks!

The authors are two of the projects very active committers.

Martijn Dashorst and Eelco Hillenius

I have been on the Manning MEAP program for it and the book is looking very good.  It will be great to point newbs at on what Wicket it can do.

I know personally I have created web pages quicker, with more function than ever before in a java framework.  In comparison to my days back in Struts (oh the pain), once you get your head around Wicket, it is just sweet.

It truly makes web development in Java fun again.

Long live Wicket.

I have seen the gambit of frameworks, technologies, features, whatever.

Well I have to say, I have seen the future of Java Web development and it is called Wicket.

If you do any Java web development, you MUST investigate Wicket.

http://wicket.apache.org

I will never write another JSP page as long as I do Java web development.

Joe has released a follow up update to the 1.03 security update release just a couple days ago. For all the 2.x FF users, you should be given the option to download it as of now. Joe just keeps making better!

If you have not installed Firebug, use Firefox (if you aren’t, what are you doing), install it now! Web development without Firebug is just WRONG.

Get Firebug

Related Story: Firebug 1.03

Joe has released 1.03 of Firebug as a result 0-day security exploit that has been discovered. Joe is recommending that everyone install it as soon as possible.

The update has been published to addons.mozilla.org, so you can get it by updating Firebug from the Firefox Add-ons window. Alternatively, you can install the update using the big orange button on the getfirebug.com home page.

Related posts:

Firebug 1.01 – Released
Firebug 1.0 – Official Release

Joe has just released a update to the recent 1.0 release of Firefox Firebug extension.

Changes are:

1. Support escaping the % sign in console.log() calls using %%
2. Support “Find Next” in the CSS tab
3. Fixed problem causing inconsistent breakpoint triggering
4. Deleting a disabled CSS property will work properly
5. Fixed bug that prevented editing of DOM properties with numeric values
6. Inserted warning about incompatibility with Sothink SWF Catcher extension
7. Fixed incompatibility with HTML Validator extension

If you haven’t gotten the update in Firefox yet, go get it now over at Firebug.com

Related post:
Firebug 1.0 Official Release

So what will become more dominant? Ajax sites or Flash based sites? Does it matter?

Or could the future be in a combo of Ajax Flash based sites instead?

Based on a report: The State Of Web Development – Ajax set to surpass Flash in ’07 they are saying Ajax will surpass Flash in 2007.

I think we will see only more Ajax based pages hopefully where appropriate. Flash is becoming the true source of all online video these days so we know that will not become less, only more.

What do you think?