The Reference library consolidates documents about Wicket itself, integrating Wicket with other technologies, and how to accomplish specific tasks in Wicket.

Wicket reference

• Lifecycle of a Wicket Application
• Wicket's XHTML tags
• Working with models
• Form validation messages
• Browser back & forward
• Bookmarkable pages and links
• JavaScript and CSS support
• Custom State Tracking
• Tables and Grids

Projects

• [ Wicket Stuff|Wicket-Stuff]
• RAD Components
• Databinder

Integration guides

• Spring
• OSGi

How to do things in Wicket

View Layer

• Using frames
• Adding a markup filter
• How to obfuscate/encrypt a wicket url
• How to remove wicket specific markup from output
• How to change the character encoding
• How to include css references for a component in Wicket 1.0
• How to create consistent layout using Markup Inheritance
• How to modify attributes on an HTML Tag
• How to have one Page reference multiple markup pages
• How to change the display of anchor tags
• CSS-enabled feedback panel
• Filtering messages on a feedback panel
• Create dynamic markup hierarchies using panels
• How to add a variable/run-time-determined number of components
• How to add tooltips

Forms

• How to use listviews in forms
• How to use multiple submit buttons in form
• How to use checkboxes to select items in a listview
• How to use the same Form for editing and new
• Forms with dynamic elements
• Using RadioGroups
• DropDownChoice Examples
• Validating PasswordTextField
• Form control labels

Models and binding

• Working with Wicket models
• How to filter ListView contents by criteria selected from a drop down menu
• Referencing Models From Inner Classes

Configuration

• How to use custom resource paths (load templates from a different location than the classpath)
• How to Control where HTML files are loaded from (or__ how do I change the strategy for naming HTML files)
• Which security permissions are required to run Wicket in a SecurityManager
• How to run Wicket behind a front end proxy server (e.g. Apache with mod_jk or mod_proxy)

General Application

• How to use custom converters
• How to build a wizard in Wicket
• How to use Markup inheritance for consistent page layouts
• How to create reusable elements using Panels
• How to order your feedback messages
• A note on the rendering strategies available
• Getting the actual URL for a WebPage as a String
• How to get access to the raw HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse objects
• How to create a Rss page in Wicket
• How to remove the message bundle requirement for validating components
• How to redirect to an external non-Wicket page
• How to create a custom component
• Switch to SSL mode
• Implement stateless pages

Excel Spreadsheet

• How to work with Excel in Wicket using JExcel API

i18n

• General i18n in Wicket

Database Interaction

• How to read from a database
• Wicket Phonebook - Example Spring & Hibernate/IBATIS CrUD app
• Databinder - External project combining Wicket and Hibernate.
• IBATIS

Building From Source

Note: This needs updating, as we're now using Maven2
We are using Maven for the build process. You'll find here some information on how to install Maven and successfully build Wicket.

• Using Maven to build Wicket from source
• How to setup Maven to use Wicket-assigned Clover license
• Wicket's SVN strategy

Servlet Engine/Application Server Notes

• How to setup Tomcat to test clustering with Wicket
• Testing with the Maven2 Jetty6 Plugin

OSGi

• How to run Wicket applications in an OSGi container like Oscar

Testing

• How to test page rendering and flow
• How to test using an embedded instance of Jetty6

Wicket-Extension-related notes

• Adding links in a DefaultDataTable