Hi Frank, I don't think there are any limitations regarding which version of Tomcat you can use. I'm currently using it with Java 5 and Tomcat 5.x and haven't had any problems. My IDE is IDEA, but you should be fine with anything.
I started using Wicket after coming over from building a number of large applications with Struts. The learning curve was steep, but well worth it. I'm told that Wicket is much easier to learn if you have experience building Swing applications. The downside with Wicket is the lack of intro documentation, but you really need to dig through a few sample apps to get a feel for how things work. The biggest thing I had to get over was everything is in the Java class. I'm accustomed to having logic in the markup as well as the Java code - not so with Wicket. At first I thought this resulted in writing much more code than before, but it's really the same amount of code, or even less because you can viciously refactor your code, which is hard with JSPs. It's possible that you'll have some difficulty if this is your first large webapp. Not because of Wicket, but because you'll have to learn the servlet spec to figure out where to put things. But most of those questions can be asked and answered on the user list. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
