I wanted to buy an apache wicket book but I got stuck on stripes

So today I wanted to buy an apache wicket book, because I try to create a simple example which shows how you could use apache activemq as embedded JMS broker in a web application with spring and hibernate to process data asynchronously.

I have already written the whole business layer (spring, hibernate and JMS) but for a simple demonstration I need a web ui framework.

I didn’t want to write the ui in JSF, so I thought this is a good way to learn Apache wicket. I went to my locale bookstore but they didn’t had the “wicket in action” book.

But an other book got my attention. Stripes …and Java Web Development is fun again.

Stripes is an open source web application framework based on the model-view-controller pattern. It aims to be a more lightweight framework than Struts by using Java technologies such as annotations and generics that were introduced in Java 1.5, to achieve “convention over configuration”. [Wikipedia]

As fare as I can tell Stripes looks quite interesting. I’m not yet finished with reading, but I must say after few chapters I already have a glue how to implement the ui layer. The book covers also a chapter how you could integrate hibernate and spring annotations.

So I’m looking forward to see how stripes fits in with spring and hibernate.