I had forgotten how many frameworks are covered in the NetBeans set of quickstart documents; check out the list:

• Introduction to Developing Web Applications • Introduction to the Spring Framework • Introduction to the JavaServer Faces Framework • Introduction to the Struts Web Framework • Introduction to the Grails Web Framework • Introduction to the Wicket Web Framework

GlassFish v3 is scheduled to go final at the end of November and the builds are stabilizing quickly. Our test suites are very exhaustive but the only way to be sure that the final artifacts work for you is if you try them in your specific configuration. I was looking through the list and it made me think that FishCAT for GF v3 just completed its first week (See Judy's mail and report) and that team filed more than 20 bugs and more than half have already been fixed. so...

If you use one of the Java Frameworks, or your favorite app or framework, with the latest GF v3 builds and find issues, help us, and the rest of the community, by filing a bug. Thanks!

Wicket is a Java framework where the presentation is done using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools and dynamic content and forms are done in Java code using a component model backed by POJO data beans (see earlier TA entries). The framework is gaining more traction (Pro Wicket book, OnJava Article) and it has elicited a number of positive comments including Geertjan, Simon and Guillermo and now Filippo has a new series, triggered in part by its work where he adds JavaEE Annotation support to Wicket 2. Other blogs entries are [1], [2], [3].

Wicket has run on GlassFish since early on (early blog), and the latest blogs from Filippo are also based on GlassFish.

Geertjan has reimplemented one of the NetBeans Web Services Tutorials to use JAX-WS, Wicket, and GlassFish and he is really Jazzed up about the Combination. The tutorial is using a SpellCheck WS from CDYNE.

Geertjan went playing with Wicket, NetBeans and GlassFish and he enjoyed it. If you want to try it out, check the NB's modules that Geertjan put together: here and here For more details, check Geertjan's blog.

Wicket is an application framework that emphasizes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of development. The presentation is intended to be done using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools while dynamic content processing and form handling is all handled in Java code using a first-class component model backed by POJO data beans. The Wicket site and wiki has plenty of more information, including examples to look at. Seymour Cakes (located in Malaysia) has tested Wicket against GlassFish and he reports that all that is needed is to add some new permissions to server.policy. I'd bet this works too for SJS AS 8.1 (also in the J2EE SDK).