Qwicket is a quickstart application for the wicket framework. Its intent is to provide a rapid method for creating a new wicket project with the basic infrastructure in place so that you can quickly get to the meat of your application rather than mucking with the plumbing of a wicket application. Currently, the system only supports spring and hibernate built with ant. Future plans include support for maven 2 and other persistence layers such as ibatis.
In this article, after a quick introduction to Wicket, you will learn to obtain and set up the requisite software for Wicket-based web development. Then you will learn to develop interactive web pages using Wicket. Along the way, you will be introduced to some key Wicket concepts.