I'm not sure how up-to-date this is, but isn't this what you want? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Request+processing+overview
If you need more details than that you should probably just dive into the source code. - Jeroen PS. Google is your friend, this was the first hit for "wicket request handling" 2013/10/20 Farrukhjon SATTOROV (farrukh) <fireda...@gmail.com> > Hi everyone. I'm interesting how wicket farmework work under the hood, for > example class colling sequence or steps by web server (tomcat): > webserver->deploy->war->WicketFilter->WebApplication ? Thanks an advance. >