FileDropoff Test Drive
Now that all of your tests have passed, it's time to fire up your Wicket application and try it out in a browser. Since you used a test-driven methodology, you can expect things to work immediately because automated functional tests are already exercising the code. In a real development situation, you should write tests to verify error condition behavior as well (invalid field values, and so on). Try deploying the application remotely or using very large files to see the progress bar in action—uploading to your local disk may go too fast.
Wicket requires only a servlet container to run, and it encourages the use of the Jetty container, whose lightweight footprint is further reduced by the exclusion of a JSP engine. The FileDropoff example was created using the Wicket Maven archetype. You can launch it by simply running mvn jetty:run. Alternatively, the archetype also creates a Start class, which embeds Jetty and can be conveniently debugged as a normal Java application.
Wicket recently became an Apache Software Foundation project, and it is approaching a major release. It represents a good option for lightweight, component-oriented web application development using pure Java and object-oriented design principles and patterns.
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