This wiki is dedicated to documenting the Wicket Java application framework. Wicket takes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of development to a whole new level. The wiki is currently open to new users and contributors; see the contribution page for more information. To download Wicket, please visit the Wicket site.

Framework Documentation

• Documentation Index - An attempt to provide a one-page overview as to where to look for information.

• Getting started guide (A little dated/incomplete, so check the Reference library too)
• Reference library - A selection of reference guides and how-tos.
• Best Practices and Gotchas
• Wicket FAQs
  Notes:

1. This Wiki has (or will have) a page dedicated to each major class of this framework. Try typing the class name in the 'Search' box (top-right) to locate documentation (if available). For example, to find additional information on the Label component, enter Label there and click 'Search'.
2. See also the Labels page (via the Browse Space link) for some indices into the content of this site, e.g. model, component, etc.

Migrations

About Wicket

Introduction to Java web applications

• Introduction on Java web applications A must read for anyone developing web applications with Java. We presume you know this before you start working with Wicket.

Why Wicket

• An introduction by Jonathan Locke (father of Wicket)

Framework Comparisons

• Wicket and Struts
• Wicket and Tapestry
• Wicket and JSP / Spring MVC / WebFlow (1.0)
• Wicket and JSF (blog post)
• Wicket and GWT (blog post)
• Wicket and Seam / JSF (blog post)
• Wicket, Tapestry 5 and Grails (blog post)

Who is using Wicket

• Websites based on Wicket
• Wicket Products
• Related Projects and Tools adding additonal value to the World of Wicket (WoW)

Where to (get) help

IRC

• For those interested in a more direct support, please join IRC: ##wicket at irc.freenode.net. See Wicket IRC for more information

Community initiatives

• Meetups

Communities on social networking sites

• Wicket @ LinkedIn You are welcome to join.
• Wicket @ Xing Same applies here, join.

Contribute to Wicket

• Contributing to Wicket - Report a bug, Build a quickstart, Submit a patch...

Commercial Services

• Companies that provide services such as training, consultations and support

What's next

Wish List for Next Version

• Wicket Wish List
• Wicket Ajax rewriting

Migrations

• Migration from Wicket 1.5 to Wicket 6.0 (6.0 work in progress; not yet released)
• Migration from Wicket 1.4 to Wicket 1.5 (1.5 is the current stable release)
• Migration from Wicket 1.3 to Wicket 1.4 (1.4 is the previous stable release)
• Migration from Wicket 1.2 to Wicket 1.3 (1.3 is an old stable release)
• Migration to Wicket 1.2 (1.2 is the current an old stable release)
• List of API changes from 1.1.1 to 1.2 (Updated to compare with the released 1.2 jar)
• Migration from 1.2 to Wicket 2.0 (2.0 is work in progress

Projects using Wicket

• as described here is discontinued)

More about Wicket...

Videos, Talks, Screencasts

• "Wicket Quickstart" - comprehensive screencast about how to use wicket-archetype-quickstart by Al Maw
• "Generic Bean Editing with Apache Wicket - Presentation & Code" (short talk by Al Maw)
• Video of an interview with Nick Heudecker on TheServerSide.com
• Slides and presentations
• MeetMoi Location based mobile dating on your cell phone.
• Irrigator A simple web interface for controlling water taps in an irrigation system
• Burgerweeshuis An open source CMS for pop venues, currently only dutch
• Voicetribe Voicetribe adds online commentaries to your favorite DVDs.
• Eventful Eventful allows you to manage your event with simplicity and ease.
• Woogle Woogle is a Wicket based, Wicket search engine.
• Szeretgom.hu A Wicket based hungarian web portal
• Track Detective: A site for GPS track analysis and manipulation

Wicket Press & User Stories

• Articles about Wicket
• Wicket Blogs
• User stories

Framework Comparisons

• Stories

Companies Hiring Wicket Developers

• Employers seeking Wicket developers
• Wicket and Struts
• Wicket and Tapestry

External Links

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• Wicket Spirals teaching method by Dzenan Ridjanovic
• Online Maven Book Get help understanding Maven

Using Wicket

Development Environment

Java

• Setup JDK - Java Development Kit

Build tools

• Setup Maven - Maven (build, reporting and documentation)

IDE

• Setup Eclipse and plugins
• Setup IntelliJ IDEA
• Netbeans IDE

Application server

• Setup Tomcat - servlet engine / application server
• JBoss AS 7 Wicket Quickstart
• Red Hat OpenShift + Wicket - HOWTO Free hosting for Wicket applications on JBoss AS 7

Portal server

• Setup Liferay - enterprise opensource portal server

Database

• Setup HSQLDB - in-memory database during development
• Setup PostgreSQL - enterprise ready opensource database

Development

Wicket User Guide

Learn building web applications with Wicket from scratch reading its 200+ page user guide. The guide gradually introduces you to the various features of the framework with many real-world examples. It covers subjects such as models, behaviours, testing and integration with other projects.

The guide is available as PDF or html file for the following versions:

 Wicket User Guide - Wicket 6.x, Wicket 7.x, Wicket 8.x

Framework Documentation

• Documentation Index - An attempt to provide a one-page overview as to where to look for information.
• Windows Guide to Installing Wicket on Eclipse with Maven - How to get a Wicket development environment installed and running.
• New User Guide (A work-in-progress but a reasonable starting point.)
• Reference library - A selection of reference guides and how-tos.
• Best Practices and Gotchas
• Wicket FAQs
• Release notes

GUI-Components and Widgets

Here is the reference for the standard Wicket GUI components: Component Reference

You are looking for some additional additional cool Widgets, mainly Javascript/AJAX style?
Then have a look here:

• Wicketstuff - Wicket Stuff provides components that complement the Wicket framework.
• Wicket-Bootstrap - Simple and flexible Wicket Components, HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.
• wiQuery - wiQuery integrates jQuery and jQuery UI into the Apache Wicket framework.
• visural-wicket - a set of open-source Wicket components, Apache 2.0 licensed.
• Tabs:
  • Article "Advanced Wicket tabs with jQuery"
• Tree:
  • Project "wicket-tree"

Wicket Component Packaging

• Wicket Component JAR Metadata

Portlet Development

• Examples: Wicket Examples as portlets - run the wicket example webapplication as (collection of) portlets

Development Aids

• Serialization Checker

Testing

• Settings for testing
• Choosing the overall testing approach:
  • Selenium - tips for testing Wicket apps with Selenium
  • WicketTester - Mock the browser and the container. Check the states of the components and the models.
  • Wicket Page Test - Use a real browser and a real container. Mock the service objects. Check the HTML DOM elements (supporting AJAX).

IRC

• For those interested in a more direct support, please join IRC: ##wicket at irc.freenode.net. See WicketIRC for more information