Apache Wicket Reviews & Product Details

Apache Wicket is a Web development Java framework used for developing web applications and services.

It simplifies web development using Java and XHTML complaint HTML codes.

Its component based which make it reusable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wicket works with Java 8 or more so Users have to update their Java for using Apache Wicket.

Difficult to understand for new Users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's components are ready to use. The frame work structure is great. It makes my work easy. All components support Ajax behaviour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes working on It is complicated. Java code in pages and components are lil'bit messy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The things that excite me are java 8 functionality, spring injection and support from. Apache is like amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The code some times becomes a hassle to deal. With Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OOP and component based deign of the framework (Write once, use eveywhere)

Ready-to-use components (e.g. wicket, wicket-jquery-ui and wicket-kendo-ui components)

Designing elegant architecture is simplified by the use of Java 8 and functional programming!

User guides and doccumentation.

Active releases and Apache support.

It is of course open-source, which helps you becoming master in Wicket.

Bean validation, Spring injection and Spring security integration.

Inherent protection against session fixation, request forgery, etc.

Having the liberty to push the load onto client or server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes hacking with jquery-ui components can be daunting.

Sometimes you need to override an internal method, but realizing that it is a final method is just frustrating..

Java code in pages and components might get messy after some time.

You should search for the developer experiences and best practices for Wicket, before attempting to build a huge architecture... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found wicket to be good when you want to quickly throw up a web page and map Java objects to tags in the page.

I also like that we could have a designer create the web page in html, and then a developer could later on just add the wicket tags in the same html page to add the data we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's sort of a MVC framework that uses state. Most modern web apps are now stateless and API based. Wicket is really starting to show it's age in web development.

It can also be complicated when you start wanting to have complex pages with lots of elements and interactivity or when you want to add other frameworks/components that aren't part of wicket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are multiple things I love about the framework, but if I would have to point one, I would choose the object oriented approach to web application. This means for me that the logic isn't injected into the HTML but is instead a part of the Java code. The models allowing from retrieval of domain objects from different data sources. And as a last is the support for test driven development on multiple levels from the isolation on the component level and model level to the well thought support for integration testing and validating the generated html. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relative verbosity of the framework. Relatively complicated integration with more complex javascript components created in other frameworks like Jquery-ui, though I must mention for lots of these components the integration already exists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wicket lets the developer focus heavily towards their application logic rather than the vast technical minutia inherent to providing a web interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wicket has a slightly steep learning curve and can't hide all the technology layers that combine to build a web-driven UI. Developers really need a fairly reasonable grasp of HTML, CSS and at least some Javascript if they're to bring out all of Wicket's merits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The structure of this framework is great! Actually, when I compare it with JSF it makes the UI-side of the application much cleaner, readable, understandable, and flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Wicket is more about all Java applications, not only Wicket; which is being so verbose. Although is code extremely readable, code lines are too long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most favorite feature is, developer only need to write pure java and HTML code only. Pages and Components in Wicket are real Java objects. All components support ajax behavior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I worked on Apache Wicket, lack of Apache Wicket expert in market was big issue for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.