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Integration in general

If you want to migrate an existing JSP based application to Wicket, then there are some quirks you need to take care of.

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• use jsp:include to include the url to your wicket page

• you (probably) can't use redirections, since wicket will redirect to it's own page. If so, override beforeCallComponent in your page:

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  public void beforeCallComponent(Component component, RequestListenerInterface listener) { setRedirect(false); }

• Because you're using include/forward, the default ServletWebRequest.getPath method will return null. Therefore, you need a specially created one:

in your Application class, override newWebRequest:

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here are the needed implementations:

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Partial migration with wicketstuff-jee-web

If you want to migrate your application partial and stepwise you can use wicketstuff-jee-web. The advantage is that you are able to let your JSP / Servlets interact with Wicket pages.

A user guide can be found here:

https://github.com/wicketstuff/core/wiki/JEE-Web-Integration

An article and examples here:

http://java.dzone.com/articles/integrate-jspjsf-pages-wicket