Finally, the Web Framework of web framework, Apache Wicket, now has a bible of its own.

Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented, stateful web application framework written in Java, created by very smart guys and actively developed by a large, enthusiastic and rapidly growing global community. Out of the box, Wicket comes with full support for creating large, highly scalable, internationalized web applications. Support for AJAX is top of the line, as is support for authentication and authorization, and integration with persistence frameworks. Wicket keeps dependencies between presentation and logic as small as possible, leading to a efficient development process where web designers and application developers can work in parallell to a higher degree than many other web application frameworks. Presentation is plain HTML, and logic plain and pure Java. Goodbye, Tag Soup!

Apache Wicket has been developed since two thousand something and a lively and helpful community is established. The API docs are excellent, but Wicket is based on some core concepts that every beginner must understand, and until now a thorough all-in-one guide helping beginners understand these concepts and navigate from “Hello, world” to a full feathered web application has largely been lacking. This book comes to the rescue and does it with fanfare! I have bought and read the downloadable early access edition and am very satisfied. Martijn Dashorst and Eelco Hillenius are core committers and have been with Wicket for a long time, so they know their baby in every respect, from bits and pieces to grander things like clustering, scaling and deploying of enterprise sized web application. They are also good teachers and present their case step by step, introducing new things when it comes natural.

The book describes all aspects of Wicket application development by building a dynamic web application that makes use of persistence, internationalization and AJAX. The reader learns how to build a high quality web applcation, reuse already made components and how to create and package new components for later reuse. Best practices when developing are described, as is aspects about integration with the Spring framework and Hibernate, activities like testing, catching errors, deploying for production, and so on.

With this book, the Wicket API and the great community, nothing can go wrong! Buy it.