Java PureFaces is a layer on top of JSF that simplifies implementation. The article here is the aggregate of the blog posts that I have written on our blog. The framework is not yet made public, and we are looking to see if there is interest in us releasing it as an open-source project. We are not a JSF framework company; we develop web applications. This framework is a result of our experience with the tools with which we were already working.
I want to start using JPA with Wicket, and the quickest way was to start with Qwicket, a project that already has done the heavy lifting. I wanted to be able to build and run my maven-managed application from eclipse. And lastly, I wanted to use MySQL. Qwicket does come with maven support, but it's managed from an ant script. I wanted native maven support. Here's what I did to change qwicket so it fits my requirements: