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Today i started to really check out how wicket works. As usually when trying out new webframeworks, i used Appfuse-light (version 1.8 beta) to quickstart creating an IDEA project. After changing 2 places in the sources to make appfuse-light work with MySQL, i was ready to investigate the code. Luckily Matt already plugged Spring into the game, which is very close to my current project structure.

Now i will start to play around with this little CRUD thingy and insert some components to see how wicket feels like. One ugly thing i experienced was:

getRequestCycleSettings().setRenderStrategy(IRequestCycleSettings.ONE_PASS_RENDER);

The usage of a different renderer strategy in wicket to handle sitemesh properly, but this render style leaves me alone with the double submit problem, that sucks. Perhaps i should avoid sitemesh and use the wicket style of decoration (which is more like markup inheritance) which goes like described here.

Anyway, i am eager to see some more components in action, possibly with AJAX support. Lets see how things go. Unfortunately i always have to do real work besides test drives like these.