Wicket and complex Ajax scenarios

Question

When a screen has multiple interacting Ajax controls and you want to control the visibility of components to react to these controls (so that you only display what makes sen

Answer 1

When I'm creating components for a page I tend to add them to component arrays:

Component[] pageComponents = {
                  new TextField("Field1"),
                  new TextField("Field2"),
                  new TextField("Field3")
}

As of Wicket 1.5 the add functions take array parameters [1]. Therefore elements can be added to the page or target like this:

add(pageComponents);
target.add(pageComponents);

Components can then be grouped based on which you want to refresh together.

[1] http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/apache/wicket/wicket/1.5-M3/wicket-1.5-M3-javadoc.jar!/org/apache/wicket/ajax/AjaxRequestTarget.html