Apache Wicket is a stateful web framework focusing on keeping things simple and letting Java developers do what they know best - write Java code - instead of messing with tedious xml and other configuration files. It provides a clear separation of markup (html/xml) and logic (Java code), letting your web designers make changes to the markup templates of the application without worrying about breaking everything. Wicket follows the standard MVC pattern where pages and components are built up from Java classes/objects - the Controller and the Model respectively - and the corresponding HTML template - the View.