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Why - because A) we don't want to risk serialize an object, models are fine though - lightweight and ok. And we want to let the component take care of the detach when the request is done B) With an direct-entity we would set an nondynamic value to our label. With a model, the label will update the value from the entity it's using.

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May collide with wicket code, make sure you know your JS-library well

Do make sure you understand the repeaters for high performance sites

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Wicket can be tweaked in all kinds of expected and unexpected ways. For example you can substitute your own resource messages provider, filter and change the markup as it is read from disk or completely override the request cycle handling. However, some of these extension points are not for the faint hearted and not likely to be right immediately

onInitialize for adding components.

If you need to , and for components that are not a Page, you can override the new onInitialize callback to add components, which is only called once after construction, when the component has been added to the page (so that component.getPage() doesn't return null).

Another option is to use addOrReplace() instead of add.

Wicket Filter Mapping

Wicket 1.4.x and upwards

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• Links with stuff not yet integrated:
  http://www.devproof.org/wicket_best_practice - Devproof best practices
  http://blog.worldturner.com/worldturner/entry/wicket_best_practices_components_vs blog worldtuner