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Just like most open source communities, Wicket is a global community. And with global communities come books in various languages. Wicket in Action is the third published Wicket book in english, and there has been one in chinese. Today I found the announcement of a german Wicket book which is simply called “Wicket“. Its subtitle is “Komponentenbasierte Webanwendungen in Java”. Even if you don’t speak german, the subtitle is easily translatable. The book is scheduled to be released in Juli 2009 and you’ll have to speak or learn german to read it :)
I haven’t heard about this book before, but I enjoy the fact that more people think it is worthwhile to write and publish books about the Wicket framework. More books means more community, which means more potential readers for all published books.
With this book, Wicket will become the greatest territory the Dutch have settled since Manhattan.
Nathan Hamblen
Senior Software Engineer, Teachscape Inc.
This is the complete and authoritative guide to Wicket, written and reviewed by the core members of the Apache Wicket team. If there's anything you want to know about Wicket, you are sure to find it in this book.
Jonathan Locke
Founder and Architect of Apache Wicket, Foreword Wicket in Action
Without question, Wicket in Action... is the be-all and end-all when it comes to Wicket.
Geertjan Wielenga, Wicket Netbeans Plugin Author
The tutorial and conversational tone of the writing makes the book very approachable.
Nick Heudecker
System Mobile
Loved the sample application—it tied everything together.
Phil Hanna
Senior Software Developer, SAS Institute
The essential guide for learning and using Wicket.
Erik van Oosten
Lead programmer and Project Manager, JTeam
Finally, the Web Framework of web frameworks, Apache Wicket, now has a bible of its own.
Per Ejeklint
Senior Software Architect, Heimore group
Wicket is an innovative evolution of the MVC programming with simple roots, but without a primer such as this, it can be more challenging than it needs to be.
Brian Topping
Founder, Bill2 Inc.
Wicket In Action glues the areas of web development with Apache Wicket together and gives a great overview of Apache Wicket...it will make a great compendium.
Nino Martinez Wael
Java Specialist, Jayway Denmark