Chapter 1. What is Wicket?
In this chapter:
- A brief history of Wicket
- Solving the problems of web development
- Just Java + just HTML = Wicket
- A few examples as a gentle introduction
The title of this chapter poses a question that a billion people would be happy to answer—and would get wrong! Due to the popularity of the game of cricket throughout the world, most of those people would say that a wicket is part of the equipment used in the sport (see figure 1.1 to see what a wicket is in the cricket sense). Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport much like baseball, but more complicated to the untrained eye. The game is popular in the United Kingdom and South Asia; it’s by far the most popular sport in several countries, including India and Pakistan.
Figure 1.1. A cricket wicket: a set of three stumps topped by bails. This isn’t the topic of this book.
Keen Star Wars fans would say that Wicket is a furry creature called an Ewok from the forest moon Endor. True Star Wars fans would also say that Ewoks were invented for merchandising purposes and that the movie could do well without them, thank you very much. However, Star Wars fans would also be proved wrong by their favorite search engine (see figure 1.2, showing a search for wicket on Google).
