The Life-Cycle of a Wicket Application Loading the Application A Wicket application runs in any J2EE compliant application server by defining a Java servlet in the application's web.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <display-name>My Wicket Applica