In the course of investigating some alternative web frameworks (other than Struts2, which I do like) I decided to take a look at Wicket. This is a vastly different way of creating web projects, and I am really starting to like it. The big difference is that you don’t need a lot of configuration, and you do a lot of coding that looks like real Java classes. You get to add components and listeners to a class that acts as your page. There is a html file that goes with each page, but it is just html. Only the wicket:id element to the span (or other html) tags indicates that there is anything different. You link to other html pages, and wicket does the rest.

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