Lately I’ve been playing around with Wicket, a really nice Web framework.
I’ve gotten less than fond of SpringMVC and JSP using it for a while, it just seems so backwards…..
I found several nice tutorials on the net such as this one as well as the Wicket tutorials. Right now I’m looking at integrating old code (JSP), and Acegi for a possible migration path
What I’ve seen so far is easy to sum up :
- Wicket-Spring is dead easy, annotation exposed @SpringBeans make Dao access a snap
- Using AJAX is suddenly a matter of Java
- You can start designing pages/panels/labels and so on in an ‘elegant’ manner
- I’ve already been able to reuse code
- HTML is HTML – and easy to work with
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.