That’s right folks, we’ve again taken the love for Apache Wicket on the road to Ft Lauderdale, Florida! The team that puts on these shows is the same that does the No Fluff Just Stuff tours around the USA. This show though, and Überconf before it are all about longer more in-depth sessions so you leave knowing how to get started, and workshopping with the speakers and deep diving into actually building with that technology.

We had a great group enthused about Apache Wicket, some trying it for the first time, and others already fans with some laser-guided questions for how to get more out of the framework.

Here are links as references for the folks who were unable to attend and those who asked them to reposted:

• An in-depth look at Apache Wicket
• Apache Wicket Workshop

Enjoy!

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Here at Mystic, we love Apache Wicket for it’s clean separation of mark-up and logic, simple POJO data model and one of the first web frameworks to espouse lack of XML as a benefit.

1. Download Apache Maven.
2. Install it and ensure that the mvn executable is in your path.
3. Run the following command to download and execute the mvn archetype for Wicket:

mvn archetype:create \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.wicket \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=wicket-archetype-quickstart \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.4.14 \
-DgroupId=com.mycompany \
-DartifactId=myproject

That’s it. This creates the Maven directory structure with the appropriate pom.xml setup and the dependencies in your ~/.m2 directory. After this you should be ready to rock your next Apache Wicket application.

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