Wicket Web Beans (WWB) is an Apache Wicket component toolkit for displaying and editing POJOs that conform to the JavaBeans specification. Web pages are automatically generated based on bean properties and certain conventions. If necessary, the layout, editability, and actions of these pages can be customized on an exception basis. In other words, the toolkit normally does what you'd expect, but when it doesn't, you can override its behavior.
At the highest-level, WWB's BeanForm component provides rich AJAX form functionality. The form is embedded in a Page designed by you. This allows you to create customized page designs. Also, this allows multiple BeanForms to be incorporated on a single page. At your choosing, other lower-level components may be used independently of BeanForm (e.g., BeanGridPanel). WWB does not try to force you into a certain way of doing things, but BeanForm makes it very convenient to implement a bean-based form if you don't want to go to a lot of extra work. You focus on the model (beans), WWB handles the user interface.
Fields within a form are dynamically sent back to the server-side bean as they are changed, which eliminates the typical form submit cycle. This makes WWB act more like a rich client application and less like a standard forms-based application.
Wicket Web Beans is distributed under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0. The text is included in the file LICENSE.txt in the root of the project.
Wicket Web Beans requires at least Java 1.5. The application server for running your web application should adhere to the servlet specification version 2.3 or newer.
Check out the Getting Started tutorial to get started quickly with WWB.
The WWB distribution contains the final jar file which you can use directly in your applications. If you want to change the source, you can download the source distribution and build it. You build WWB using Maven 2:
