I used Wicket for a major project way back in 2007 and worked with the creator of Wicket for a while - so it's almost certain I got some inspiration there :) Wicket was probably the first time I saw a web framework and thought - "wow, this web stuff can be elegant".

Wicket suffered because it straddled the transition from pure HTML to HTML+AJAX. It could do HTML+AJAX, and their solution was elegant, but it was an afterthought and Wicket wasn't really designed around it.

Kweb was designed from the ground-up for this world and this affords it many advantages.