Starting the new year with a bang the 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: http://wicket.apache.org 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! - The Wicket Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]