What is Qwicket?
Qwicket is a quickstart application for the Wicket framework.
Its intent is to provide a rapid method for creating a new wicket project with the basic
infrastructure in place so that you can quickly get to the meat of your application rather
than mucking with the plumbing of a wicket application. Currently, the system only supports
spring and hibernate built with ant. Future plans include support for maven 2 and other
persistence layers such as ibatis.
Qwicket was inspired by appfuse.
Where Qwicket differs is that it focuses solely on wicket rather than bringing in multiple
frameworks. This allows for greater flexibility in code generation and evolution of the
system. Qwicket can then focus on generating best practice wicket code with no worries of
breaking any other framework code.
News
1/19/08
Version 1.0 released. The impossible has happened. 1.0 is final. Apart from being entirely too busy with
work and sick children, I've been anxiously waiting along with everyone else for the 1.3 release to go final.
This version features some streamlined build process and a more interesting default UI. You'll likely end
up building a new UI but at least there's enough there to work with while your design guys build something
more customized. Part of the delay has come from some odd compiling and generation problems in my development
environment but I appear to have ironed all those out. If you see something odd, please don't hesitate to
let me know and I'll try to iron out any issues as quickly as possible.
This release isn't entirely revolutionary but I hope to make some dramatic improvements over the next
few months making Qwicket much more robust and to make it easier to base projects off of and track the changes
as Qwicket evolves.
4/4/07
Version 0.5.1 released. An NPE popped up. I'm not quite sure where that one came from as I've actually used
0.5 at work just fine but it was there nonetheless and now isn't. 0.5.1 is running on the site now. If you
want an actual download bundle just post to the forums on sf.net and let me know.
3/19/07
Version 0.5 released. I've pulled the bean builder. It's not quite as functional as I'd like it to be to
be worth the effort and I'd rather focus on infrastructure/architecture, components, and integration.
Adding new beans is trivial even with spring+hibernate in the mix so I'd rather focus on other items.