A Wicket Diary

When your project is called Wicket, you will have to live with some consequences when your users Google for your project:

• somehow they will find themselves on a green field having a red ball being hurled at them (cricket)
• we didn’t imagine a flurry bear yielding a light saber at startroopers to be associated with our project
• searching for Wicket will result in queries like:
  • wicket framework
  • wicket java
  • wicket -cricket
  • wicket -cricket -ewok
  • wicket -cricket -ewok -croquet -starwars -church -hotel -poverty -candles -brood -screwing -adoption -card -icon -earning -wackers

Geertjan Wielenga has blogged about running the Wicket Kick Start Project in NetBeans. Check the Kick Start project out if you wish to jump start your Wicket development, and use the description of Geertjan to do so in NetBeans. Other IDE’s currently supported are: Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA (for IDEA: temporary download here).

It is not by intention that we don’t currently support NetBeans, we just aren’t NetBeans users. It is a matter of preference, taste and like it/hate it (this also goes for Eclipse, which also has many followers and haters). Perhaps someone will switch to NetBeans when the 4.1 release comes out?