In the good spirit of top 10 lists, very Diggable, Xavier of Ivy fame writes his own Top 10 for choosing Apache Wicket.

  1. Wicket is now Apache Wicket
  2. Wicket 1.3 beta 2 is available
  3. Very active community
  4. Proven web framework
  5. Neat component model
  6. Creating components is really easy
  7. Large set of existing components
  8. No XML
  9. Separation of concerns
  10. Clean rendered web application

Read more for his explanations on each item.

This is a very nice list of reasons to choose Wicket, or at least evaluate it for your next application!