Using Java Selenium Webdriver and LoadableComponent to handle page changes

LoadableComponentExample.java

package qa.test;

/** 
 *  Call this class with :
 *     ExpectedPage ep = new ExpectedPage().get();
 *     ep.method();
 * 
 * /
public class ExpectedPage extends LoadableComponent<ExpectedPage> {

  private WebDriver driver; // The instance of WebDriver is located in a Utils class
                            // A test class extends Utils and instantiates the driver.
                            // This local driver instance is a reference of that driver.
  private String pagelabel;

  public ExpectedPage( WebDriver drv ) {
    System.out.println("Loading ExpectedPage Page");
    this.driver = drv;
    this.driver = new RemoteWebDriver( "localhost", 4444 );
    PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);
  } 

  @Override 
  protected void isLoaded() throws Error {
    System.out.println("Calling isLoaded...");
    final WebElement myDynamicElement = ( new WebDriverWait(driver, 10) )
      .until(new ExpectedCondition<WebElement>() {
        @Override
        public WebElement apply(WebDriver d) {
          return d.findElement(By.className("prettyboxlabel"));
        } 
      });

    pagelabel = myDynamicElement.getText();
    assertTrue( "Expected page is not loaded.", pagelabel.equalsIgnoreCase("Expected Text") );
  }

  @Override
  protected void load() { 
    System.out.println("Calling load...");
    driver.get("http://mysite.com" );
  } 

  @FindBy(name = "NAME_LAST") private WebElement namelast; 
  @FindBy(name = "NAME_FIRST") private WebElement namefirst;  
  @FindBy(name = "NAME_MIDDLE") private WebElement namemiddle;
  @FindBy(name = "NAME_SUFFIX") private WebElement namesuffix;

  public void setNameLast(String lname) {
    clearAndType(defnamelast, lname);		
  }

  public void setNameFirst(String fname) {
    clearAndType(defnamefirst, fname);		
  }

  public void setNameMiddle(String mname) {
    clearAndType(defnamemiddle, mname);		
  }

  public void setNameSuffix(String sname) {
    clearAndType(defnamesuffix, sname);		
  }

  public void clearAndType(WebElement field, String text) { 
    field.clear(); 
    field.sendKeys(text); 
  }

  public void waitSeconds(int secons) {
    System.out.print("Pausing for " + secons + " seconds: ");
    try {
      Thread.currentThread();		
      int x = 1;
      while(x <= secons) {
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        System.out.print(" " + x );
        x = x + 1;
      }
      System.out.print('\n');
    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }	
  }

  public boolean handleAlert() {
    String alertMessage = "";
    boolean handled = false;
    try {
      if( driver.switchTo().alert() != null ) {
        Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
        alertMessage =  alert.getText();
        alert.dismiss();
        handled = true;
        if ( alertMessage.contains("LAST NAME") ) {
          System.out.println("Caught name field error.");
        }
      }
    } catch ( Exception e ) {
      System.out.println("Failure to catch and dismiss alert message box.");
    }
    return handled;		
  }

  @FindBy(id = "NEXTButton") private WebElement nextbutton;

  public void clickNextButton() {
    System.out.print("Clicking next button to Next page.  ");
    nextbutton.click();
    while ( handleAlert() ) {
      nextbutton.click();
    }
    waitSeconds(2); //TODO need to fix this hack to fix page synchronization
  }

  // the rest of the class is below , as necessary

}