January 03, 2008
03 January 2008 - Apache Wicket 1.3 Released
Starting the new year with a bang the Apache Wicket Team has released Apache Wicket 1.3. With this release comes a lot of great successes, but most of all the team wanted to express their wishes to everyone for a happy new year.
You can download Apache Wicket 1.3 here:
http://wicket.apache.org/getting-wicket.html
Apache Wicket is one of the fastest growing Java open source component based web frameworks. With a focus on producing valid html and a logical separation between design and code. Within minutes you can start to enjoy throwing out tag soup, complex components and high maintenance overhead for a simple POJO + html data model.
See the Apache Wicket website for more information:
Take a look at some of the following highlights or skip to the bottom and get started now.
- last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
- first Apache release: renamed packages to org.apache.wicket
- simplified several core APIs
- now works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs
- added Google Guice support
- use your Wicket pages directly in a portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)
- switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j
- integrate velocity templates as panels in your pages
- YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
- contribute new javascript dependencies to the page header using an Ajax requeset
- improved, more robust header contributions
- scale to extremely large numbers of users with stateless pages and components
- improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
- hybrid URL encoding to make search engines and your users happy
- create form panels and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
- minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)
Get started today by downloading Wicket using this link:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0
The distribution contains all the Wicket libraries, and all the source code including the examples project. In the root of the download you will find a README document with full instructions.
Migrate your Wicket 1.2 application to Wicket 1.3 using our migration guide:
http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-12.html
Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008
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----Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at January 3, 2008 01:32 PMProject Info -- Apache Wicket
With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML.
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