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Web development with Wicket, Part 2: Reducing and re-using code


You think code reuse is an elusive ideal? Wicket says think again


When you're building any kind of complex application, you want to re-use as much code as possible. The problem is, you may find yourself stymied by components that are just different enough that you have to build them from scratch. In this second installment in Nathan Hamblen's introduction to Web development with Wicket, you'll see how this open source, component-based Web application framework gets around such problems, greatly reducing the amount of code you need to cut and paste.