Web Technologies

• Struts
• JavaScript (aka ECMAScript)
  • A Re-Introduction to JavaScript
  • RFC 4329
  • ECMAScript specification
  • Introduction to JavaScript for Java Programmers
• Web Sockets API
• Web Application Description Language (WADL)
• skipfish is a web application tester by Google, described in this article by heise security

Wicket

• Wicket home (Apache)

Notes

On Why Wicket?

• The claim that other web frameworks (or even "plain vanilla" servlet / JSP) don't properly support server-side state seems rather thin. There's nothing much wrong with sessions. However, the perspective of dealing with the back button and multiple tabs / windows seems interesting.
• The separation between HTML and programming (Java) aspects seems very good.
• The "easy to use" and "fun" criteria are obviously rather subjective.