Web Development Done Right

And now there's Wicket. Talk about a mind blowing experience, it literally took me ten minutes to have a sample application up and running! The Wicket API is very Swing like, which was a welcome change for me, and allowed for a very familiar development experience. There is even an extension that allows for direct use of a Swing TreeModel. There are so many things that I like about this framework, but here's a quick list thus far:
Component framework allows for building a library of reusable building blocks.
Example applications are able to run out-of-the-box. The embedded Jetty instance makes startup a snap, and allows for you to start tweaking the example apps to really play around with the API.
NO XML!