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Aug 12

Wicket Tutorial: YUI AutoComplete using JSON and Ajax

By ptrthomas | Comments

 

A new step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate a Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) AutoComplete control with Wicket can be found here:

Wicket Tutorial: YUI AutoComplete using JSON and Ajax

It covers quite a few Wicket concepts, such as:

  • Creating a re-usable Wicket custom component
  • How to use a Wicket Ajax “Behavior”
  • Integrating a third party JavaScript widget into a Wicket application
  • Packaging CSS and JS resources needed for the custom component
  • How the required CSS and JS can be contributed to the HTML <HEAD> on demand
  • Hooking into the Wicket Ajax life cycle
  • Returning custom JSON data from the Wicket server-side component

Do check it out!