[lmm]

> The struts I got to use was full of "smart JSP custom tags"

Which is very much the opposite of how Wicket does things: there are no custom tags, the templates are inert HTML and there's a very small, non-customizable set of wicket tags/attributes (IMO the right way to do it is just IDs).

> That makes no sense whatsoever. Wicket and hiccup have nothing in common.

What they have in common is that all your logic is in code, not markup.