Apache Wicket Framework simplified framework for building and testing dynamic Web pages Overview Wicket is a recently launched Java Web development framework. It's an open source, lightweight, component-based framework, which puts it in an altogether different league from some of the earlier ways of developing Web-based applications. Wicket strives for a clean separation between the roles of HTML page designer and Java developer by supporting plain HTML-based templates that can be built using any WYSIWYG HTML design tools. The templates can then be made dynamic with little modification. Like other frameworks, Wicket is built on top of Sun Microsystems' servlet API. However, unlike frameworks based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model (such as Struts), Wicket takes away from you the task of handling request/response objects, which is inherent with technologies such as servlets. By taking away this task, Wicket allows you to concentrate on the application's business...