> I didn't say my cons were valid - but I do believe there *are* cons to
> Wicket. What are they - in your opinion?

You know what I think the pros are by now. I don't always feel the
same about the cons we currently have, but currently they would be:

* Ajax support is a compromise. We can't really help this, and I feel
we did/ are doing the best we can, but our Ajax support suffers from
the fact that we're trying to support both a traditional (page based)
and ajax approach. Particularly, back button support, bookmarkability
and asynchronous server handling suffers. Some of this might still be
improved in future versions, but I think we're already easily one of
the most complex web frameworks out there when it comes to the
internals, and these fixes are only gonna make things more difficult.

* No Hybrid approach to state handling. I know many team members
disagree here, but I've always had in my mind that the perfect
approach to state handling would be to give users the choice between
server managed and client managed (i.e. by passing parameters/ rest)
on a component level. To our defense, none of our competitors support
this either, at least not on the component level I am envisioning.

* Java. I'm getting tired of Java's limitations and plain inelegance
in some areas and how this sometimes makes Wicket verbose and even
inflexible. I'm starting to get very interested in languages like
Haskell, Erlang and Scala. Maybe it's just a phase I'm going through,
and I'm sure that people who hate anonymous classes would hate FP even
more ;-)

Eelco

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