Hi, Just wanted to take time to say I LOVE WICKET! It is a completely different approach from the other MVC frameworks. For modularity, stability, ease of use, and separation of concerns, it blows them out of the water.
We have been using Wicket 1.3 intensively for a month now. We are building a major public website (it has to stay under wraps until after its official launch on May 1st). Learning Wicket has not been without teething troubles - after all, no framework is perfect. But, the inherent ease of splitting things up into components, and the inherent encapsulation that comes with this, has shrunk our development time markedly. It also gives us a high level of confidence in what we've built, because once you get something working in isolation, it keeps working wherever you eventually put it. This is, I think, the single biggest benefit it gives us. We've thrown our site together quickly and under great time pressure, and Wicket has delivered. The inherent type safety you get from building the site from Java classes helps hugely. It means very few run-time bugs. The separation of markup means our web designer can work in the same codebase as our Java guys too, so no duplication of effort. In fact, what we have done wouldn't be possible in such a short time frame with any other framework. So, a huge thank you to the Wicket development team. Keep up the good work! _______________________________________________________ The information in this email or in any file attached hereto is intended only for the personal and confiden- tial use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is propri- etary and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communica- tion is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product. Email trans- mission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error- free. P6070214
