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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.

Table of contents

Wish List for Next Version

Wicket 1.4

Framework Documentation

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.
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
Release notes
Notes about the Wiki move
Notes:

See also the Labels page (via the Browse Space link above) for some indices into the content of this site, e.g. model, component, etc.

Migrations

Migration to Wicket 1.2 (1.2 is the current stable release)
List of API changes from 1.1.1 to 1.2 (Updated to compare with the released 1.2 jar)
Migration from Wicket 1.2 to Wicket 1.3 (1.3 is the current development release)
migrate-2.0Migration from 1.2 to Wicket 2.0 (2.0 as described here is discontinued)

Videos, Talks, Screencasts

"Wicket Quickstart" - comprehensive screencast about how to use wicket-archetype-quickstart by Al Maw
"Generic Bean Edititing with Apache Wicket - Presentation & Code" (short talk by Al Maw)
Video of an interview with Nick Heudecker on TheServerSide.com
Slides and presentations

Sites using Wicket

StartFound StartFound is a condensed list of online startups, websites and products ordered by most recent news. It is our goal to make sure you always know "What it is" before you start reading "What it did today".
Ninan Binary Download Usenet Client. Struts application currently being converted from struts to wicket. Access to wicket is currently though svn. (free and opensource project)
Virtual Ventures Preview software developed by Fortune 500 companies, predict their success for commercialization, earn cash. Fully developed in Wicket and Spring.
Coderspiel Blog of N8han written using Wicket and databinder
Artifactory Artifactory is a maven2 proxy based on Wicket
JTrac JTrac is an open source and highly customizable issue-tracking web-application written in Java.
morons.org Morons.org is a community website based on tally-ho
tally-ho Forum/Community software powering morons.org
TexasHuntFish Community site for Texas sportsmen. Currently being converted from ColdFusion to Wicket - about half way there.
MeetMoi Location based mobile dating on your cell phone.
Teachscape A professional learning system.
Servoy A RAD environment which uses Wicket for web interface generation
Voicetribe Voicetribe adds online commentaries to your favorite DVDs.
Eventful Eventful allows you to manage your event with simplicity and ease.
Irrigator A simple web interface for controlling water taps in an irrigation system
Burgerweeshuis An open source CMS for pop venues, currently only dutch
Szeretgom.hu A Wicket based hungarian web portal
Track Detective A site for GPS track analysis and manipulation
Basisregister Bedrijven Amsterdam. An internal site to cross check company data over several databases for the municipality of Amsterdam.
Papernapkin.org A code pastebin with syntax highlighting.
Alliance Communications Managment Alliance uses wicket for internal sites which provide reporting and bug tracking for internal software systems.
Vocus student information system Topicus created a web based student administration system for highschools. The application is not publicly available.
Jobindsats.dk Danish government employment statistic report generator.
WebiCal A Web application to view and edit multiple iCalendars
Sell@Market Is a web-based solution that helps to protect your gains and cut down your losses on stock trading.
GenieTown GenieTown is building a unique online community of customers and service providers. The site is designed to restore the lost experience of Main Street, where business was conducted in a personal way, the resources were local, and reputation was paramount.
Finan Finan is a financial analysis tool and now features a web based solution for their win32 deplhi client application built using Wicket
Fabulously40 40+ woman's social network. Rails site gone wicket.
jWeekend (OO & Wicket Training Courses) A Wicket site (nice/simple AJAXified cart on the "Booking" page).
datawink an online chart pattern recognition search engine
Avigo.de Atlasreisen.de AdacReisen.de Der.de Dertour.de Meiers-WeltReisen.de Tourism portals built by Wicket-Hibernate-Spring trio
B-Side B-Side is a distributor and online marketplace for independent films
TeachUs Open Source booking system designed for teachers with one-to-one tuition. Online demo (login with leif/leif). Project website
javaMix Java news aggregation site
Vegas.com Travel and entertainment site for Las Vegas shows, hotels, tours, club passes, etc.
beTurtle 'Green' social networking and information portal.
My Picture Town Photo sharing service by Nikon
IndyPhone Customize your mobile phone by creating your own logos.
jalbum.net Photo album hosting is Wicket and all of site is being migrated from jsp.
Me.dium.com Social browsing company bringing a unique experience to the online world.
yeigo.com Mobile VoIP solution, instant messaging (click signup for the wicket part).
Fenlab Nigeria Limited Agents of Hobart Foster and Other cooling equip. manufacturers in Nigeria
uTIPu Record and share your screen in a video.

Wicket Press & User Stories

Framework Comparisons

Commercial Services

Companies that provide services such as training, consultations and support

Companies Hiring Wicket Developers

Employers seeking Wicket developers

Other projects related to Wicket

Databinder project for building web applications quickly with Wicket and Hibernate
Qwicket another quickstart project for building spring+hibernate+wicket applications. Support for more persistence layers is forthcoming.
Webby Webby aims at supporting quick creation of data centric web applications, built upon Wicket, using a bean descriptor like approach. blog
Wicket Bench Eclipse plugin by Laughing Panda
Wicket Support NetBeans plugin
And IDEA plugin is under development and is planned to be added shortly to the Wicket stuff project
Shades Interface based Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework. The address book example has an example of integration with Wicket. Blog.
OPS4J / Pax Wicket OSGi service for supporting the creation of Wicket applications running on the OSGi platform
Terracotta is a JVM level clustering solution. Explicit support for Wicket is planned for their next version. Meanwhile, there is a short WIKI article here.
Wicket Web Beans is a project that automatically generates AJAX-based forms at runtime from POJOs. You write the model, WWB does the UI.
Wicket Tools is intended to be a community site with tutorials, projects that extend the functionality of wicket, and show cases of what others have done with wicket. (f.e. ExtJs Integration)

External Links

Wicket Spirals teaching method by Dzenan Ridjanovic
Frappr see where the wicked people are living
Online Maven Book Get help understanding Maven
Chinese Wicket WebSite A forum about wicket in china.

IRC

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

Community initiatives

Meetups

Child pages