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.

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 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 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

Wicket Press & User Stories

• Articles about Wicket
• Wicket Blogs
• User Stories

Companies Hiring Wicket Developers

• Employers seeking Wicket developers

External Links

• 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).