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Where are the Wicket jobs?

Posted by doubleA on March 27, 2008

I’m currently in the middle of a job search, and I’m amazed that I don’t see a single local job posting reference Wicket. There are a handful of jobs posted on Monster that reference Wicket but these are either in CA or on the East Coast. Other job boards return 0 results for Wicket. Has anyone heard of or know any companies in the Denver area that use Wicket? Or do you know of any companies that use Wicket and support a telecommuting developer?

If you are using Wicket yourself, how did you get the framework integrated into the company? Did you start with a proof of concept application to compare it to existing standards? Or did you take my approach where there were not hard standards within a fairly new J2EE organization?

In my case, I was lucky in that I was working on a new application and I didn’t have any restrictions on web frameworks. I had used Struts for several years, but got tired of the JSP hell with scriplets all over and business/display logic embedded in JSP scriptlets. That’s when I found Wicket, and I have been happy ever since. The lack of JSP and scriptlets was my main draw to Wicket, but the components and flexibility of the framework are equally impressive.

I do want to continue my Wicket love affair, but where does one go to get their Wicket fix?

One Response to “Where are the Wicket jobs?”

  1. Look for a smart company. Hang out on ##wicket. Post your availability to the list. Contribute to the project. I hear Inertia Beverages is hiring.

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