Great work, team!
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Wicket™ v7.0 Open > Source Java web framework that powers thousands of web applications > and web sites for governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, > email providers, and more. > > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, > stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and > initiatives, today announced Apache™ Wicket™ v7.0, the Open Source > Java web framework for high performance, scalable, component oriented > web applications. > This marks the seventh major release of the project that celebrated > its 10 year anniversary last year. > > This framework allows Java developers to write web applications using > components. > This way developers can reason about the user interface in user > interface building blocks, making it easier to link specific user > interactions to server-side code. > Wicket is a high performance framework processing billions of requests > daily across the world. > > "With this release we have added a major improvement to our framework, > making development with Wicket even easier.", said Martijn Dashorst, > Vice President of Apache Wicket. > "By adding 'Component Queuing' we have divorced the strict > relationship between the Java component classes and the markup. This > has been a headache for many users and sparked one of the longest > discussions on our community lists. We finally put this issue to bed." > > "Other major improvements are the move towards Java 7, newer Java EE > standards, security features and the addition of new components. > Wicket now bundles a cross site request forgery (CSRF) prevention > measure, and provides support for inline images using the data: > protocol," continued Martijn Dashorst. > > Apache Wicket v7.0 reflects over 2 years of development, testing and > feedback from hundreds of knowledgable users, bringing a highly > stable, production ready release of the popular web framework. > The release consist of almost 300 features, improvements and fixes. In > accordance with Semantic Versioning, this major release contains > several documented API breaks. Following the Semantic Versioning > standard, future minor releases of Wicket v7 will remain API > compatible. > > Availability and Oversight > > As with all Apache products, Apache Wicket software is released under > the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of > active contributors to the project. > A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day > operations, including community development and product releases. > Apache Wicket release notes, source code, documentation, and related > resources are available at https://wicket.apache.org. > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one > hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP > Server — the world's most popular Web server software. > Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more > than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully > collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, > benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software > solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community > actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and > ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and > expo. > The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual > donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, > Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg, > Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. > For more information, visit https://www.apache.org/. > > "Apache", "Apache Wicket", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The > Apache Software Foundation. > All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective > owners. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
