Looking to make Web development easier for Java developers, the Apache Software Foundation began offering this week Apache Wicket 1.3, an open source component-based Web framework.

I'm a 30 year old java web developer, with ten years of experience in IT. I didn't attend university, but went straight into a first level technical support position after school.

In this article, an excerpt from his book Art of Java Development, Neal Ford introduces the WebWork open source development framework. He discusses its architecture, configuration, and key concepts.