Looks good to me. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > I propose the following release notes for 6.0.0-beta3 announcement. > Comments are welcome. > > > > The Wicket team is proud to announce the third beta release of > the Wicket 6.x series. This release is an intermediary release > just before we give you 6.0.0 final. > > There are no more planned API breaks but if you find something > that can be made better now it the time to discuss it! The > next planned release is 6.0.0 final, so speak now or forever > be silenced (or learn to live with it until 7.0.0 comes out). > > Any feedback about the new features, their implementation and > their documentation is very welcome! > > New and Noteworthy in 6.0.0-beta3 > ================================= > > ** NOTA BENE: ** the use of modules that are marked experimental, > by being part of the sub module 'wicket-experimental', are really > that: experimental. These modules can change, disappear or blow up > your computer without notice and you really use/depend on them at > your own risk. > > Wicket Native Websockets > ------------------------ > > A new **experimental** module has been added to Wicket 6 - Wicket > Native WebSocket. This module adds support for using HTML5 > WebSockets as you may use Ajax in your Wicket applications. > > All you have to do is to add a WebSocketBehavior to your page and from > there on you can receive messages from the clients and push messages > back to them. > > At https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/0vSoAQ you may find the > documentation and a link to a demo application. > > If something is not clear feel free to ask your question in the > mailing lists and we will improve the documentation. > > Wicket Bootstrap > ---------------- > > The **experimental** modules now contain a new module for integration > with Twitter's Bootstrap. Currently this module only provides a > central way of using the Bootstrap resources. In the future we > will provide proper components and behaviors for the Bootstrap > concepts. > > To use this new **experimental** module, add this to your pom: > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> > <artifactId>wicket-bootstrap</artifactId> > <version>0.1</version> > </dependency> > > To add Bootstrap support to your pages, add this in the `renderHead` > method: > > @Override > public void renderHead(IHeaderResponse response) { > super.renderHead(response); > > Bootstrap.renderHead(response); > } > > This will render a dependency to the Twitter bootstrap CSS and JS files, > including the required dependency to JQuery. > > New Wicket Examples > ------------------- > We have started an effort to revamp the tried and tested Wicket Examples > and bring them into 2012. The new examples are located in the > **experimental** module. > > It is currently a copy of Twitter Bootstrap's design but with Wicket > specific filling. > > You can test the examples by running the > > wicket-examples-jar/src/test/java/Start.java > > class in the default package. > > The examples will feature a component reference with typical use > cases, full examples such as Hello, World, and descriptions of the > code in play. > > Wicket Atmosphere > ----------------- > > Wicket Atmosphere in the experimental modules has seen an upgrade of > the Atmosphere dependency to 1.0.0-beta3. This has caused an > incompatibility with Jetty 7.6.3 (used with Wicket and the examples). To > mitigate this, you need to override either: > > - the dependency on Jetty to 8.1.3 or newer, or > - the dependency on Atmosphere to 0.9.5 (0.9.6 and 0.9.7 are broken as > well) > > See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4656 for more > information regarding this issue. > > This release > ============ > > * Check the roadmap with a list of the major > goals: https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-60-roadmap.html > > * And the migration guide with all major and some minor changes > between 1.5.x and 6.x series: http://s.apache.org/wicket-6.0-migration > > * The Jira changelog of all closed ticket at > Jira: http://s.apache.org/wicket-6.0.0-beta3-changelog > > To use it in Maven: > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> > <artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId> > <version>6.0.0-beta3</version> > </dependency> > > If you don’t use a dependencies management build tool then you > can download the full distribution (including source) and build from > source yourself. > > Have fun, > > The Wicket team!
-- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com
