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After working with JSF for almost a year, trying Wicket was like that movie scene where the clouds part and this big ray of light hits you in the face. I just had this feeling while JSF'ing that certain things were harder than they needed to be. Well, I was right, and the Wicket people figured it out.

– Kevin Galligan (http://bigheadco.blogspot.com/2007/03/groovy-wicket.html^{Image Removed})

Wicket (currently undergoing incubation with Apache) is a good example of a web framework which throws caution to the wind, and has absolutely no XML needed. We here at Mystic have a lot of love for Wicket and are actively developing several projects with it currently.

– Mystic Coders (http://www.mysticcoders.com/blog/2007/03/13/the-rise-of-the-xml-backlash/^{Image Removed})

Writing a Wicket app is rather more like writing an event-based desktop application than a web application.

– LShift (http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/06/wicket^{Image Removed})

"Wickedly Cool" - I actually managed to whip together a Wicket Application in a few days. It is entertaining to work with, adding shiny stuff is really easy while you can develop Java code and keep those last bits of hair you have saved for ripping out in a CSS nightmare that you hopefully after finding Wicket will not have to deal with. So I'd go out on a limb and say that Wicket == Rogaine for developers.

– Joed (http://blogs.opennms.org/joed/?p=3^{Image Removed})

"So is Wicket the one true MVC framework that a lot of us have been hunting for? At the moment, I tend to think so. ... If you like Java you will really like Wicket."

– Peter Thomas (http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/wicket-impressions-moving-from-spring-mvc-webflow/^{Image Removed})

"I think its an awesome way to deal with this whole web UI framework mess. I am happy to see someone take a simple and clean approach to the whole problem, and come up with a transparent POJO solution. I like the direction the framework is going... Wicket is clean, simple and elegant."

– Comment on TheServerSide.com

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JSF is Cool and young but Wicket is younger and even cooler. Have you tried wicket?. I am also building a large CRUD application for Job Exchange System in my country using Wicket + JPA + Stateless EJB3 + Glassfish (the latest promoted build of glassfish) and we are currently in testing phase and I am not having any serious headaches as things seems to be under control. All our forms are Ajax. We have several concurrent accesses and system is stable. I believe greatly in the Wicket Project especially for CRUD cases.

– Dabar Aladejebi (http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t90719.html#92132195^{Image Removed})

"focuses the development efforts in the right place, inside plain Java code" !! This was the winning ticket for me. The framework is truly amazing. I used ever dang framework in the book and can say that I'm most impressed with this one.

– Anonymous on JavaGeek.org (http://javageek.org/2006/03/08/comparing_web_frameworks_wicket.html^{Image Removed})

Shocking simplicity. Back to the roots. Thanks.

– joozsa on JavaGeek.org (http://javageek.org/2006/03/08/comparing_web_frameworks_wicket.html^{Image Removed})

Wicket as far as I am concerned is the way forward for web development in Java. A lot of creativity involved though especially with the loops but It makes Web Development so much fun.

– Anonymous on JavaGeek.org (http://javageek.org/2006/03/08/comparing_web_frameworks_wicket.html^{Image Removed})

"Wicket became my favorite framework in about a 24-hour period, and I think it has a very bright future. With most frameworks I see limitations, with Wicket I see possibilities. There's your platitude for the day "

– wicket-user mailing list

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