Many thanks to all the Wicket Team!
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Martijn Dashorst
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.
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> collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software,
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> For more information, visit https://www.apache.org/.
>
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>
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Regards - Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro