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I am reading the book Wicket Pro by Karthik Gurumurthy from Apress and working my way through the examples in the book. Wicket caught my attention as I was was looking for an alternative to JSF for a web application. I have worked with Struts, Tapestry and a few other frameworks. Wicket seems to have an interesting and novel approach to Web “GUI” building. Pages are built up like Swing forms and panels, with components added programmatically. EJB3 is moving away from descriptors. Wicket does not use XML-descriptors. It’s goal is to be simple with a paradigm more like desktop apps than web apps. It has built in handlers for AJAX. I will continue to report how it turns out.