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Wicket - help test it!

The two things I find incredibly cool about it are:

• Both the HTML and Java code needed are as simple as the things they're supposed to do
• A real component jar - new components can be dropped in as jar files with an absolute minimum of futzing around

Have a look at the Hello World and other examples on the Quick Tour. This is excellent stuff.

The original author of Wicket is my friend Jon Locke - we had our first startup together, selling sector editors in sandwich baggies when we were 13 or so. He's worked on Win32 early on at Microsoft, then worked on AWT and Swing early on at Sun, and since has done a variety of startups. This is a guy who really knows how to do clean design.

But don't just listen to me - check it out. There was also an interesting discussion when the project was first launched on the server side.

Comments

• Looks very nice. I'm always surprised to see that the 'big' shops seem to solve ease of development by adding more tools as opposed to the approach that wicket takes, which is removing complexity from the development model.
  I'm definately going to take it for a spin ...

  Joris.

  Posted by: jmelchio on April 06, 2005 at 07:55 AM

• I remember the first time it was announced and when the creator left to work for M$. Nice to see this wonderful framework thriving. Congrats!

  Posted by: hr_stoyanov on April 06, 2005 at 01:48 PM

• Will definitely be checking this out. Any thoughts on how Wicket compares to / differs from Tapestry and Echo?

  Posted by: daeron on April 06, 2005 at 09:21 PM

• Very interesting approch. I hope you will write more detailed articles about it and other MVC / presentation frameworks!

  Posted by: paolodt on April 07, 2005 at 04:09 AM

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