Congrats to all that contributed. A comment: The 1.4 Javadocs on the wicket site should probably be updated from Wicket Parent 1.4-rc2 API . http://wicket.apache.org/docs/1.4
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeremy Thomerson<jer...@wickettraining.com> wrote: > Trying to write all of the announcements and make sure all the > documentation on the site is reasonably up-to-date is also a critical > part of any release. And it takes a long time. We were all > scrambling to try to get it done. > > -- > Jeremy Thomerson > http://www.wickettraining.com > > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Craig > McIlwee<craig.mcil...@openroadsconsulting.com> wrote: >> I heard someone saying here a few weeks ago that the 1.4.0 build had been >> finalized and that the official release was waiting on some PR stuff. Just >> curious what that was? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: martijn.dasho...@gmail.com [mailto:martijn.dasho...@gmail.com] On >> Behalf Of Martijn Dashorst >> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:54 AM >> To: >> annou...@wicket.apache.org;annou...@apache.org;users@wicket.apache.org;d...@wicket.apache.org >> Subject: Apache Wicket 1.4 takes type safety to the next level >> >> The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the release of Apache >> Wicket 1.4. Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented Java >> web application framework. With overwhelming support from the user >> community, this release marks a departure from the past where we leave >> Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum JDK version. By >> moving to Java 5 as the required minimum platform, we were able to >> utilize Java 5 idioms and increase the type safety of our APIs. Using >> Java generics you can now write typesafe web applications and create >> typesafe, self documenting, reusable custom components. >> >> The full announcement for this release can be found here: >> http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html >> >> Download Apache Wicket 1.4 >> >> You can download the release here: >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4.0 >> >> Or use this in your Maven pom's to upgrade to the new version: >> >> <dependency> >> <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> >> <artifactId>wicket</artifactId> >> <version>1.4.0</version> >> </dependency> >> >> You will need to upgrade all modules (i.e. wicket, wicket-extensions) >> to their 1.4 counterparts. It is not possible to mix Wicket 1.3 >> libraries with 1.4 libraries due to API changes. >> >> Most notable changes >> >> From all the changes that went into this release, the following are >> the most important ones: >> >> * Generified IModel interface and implementations increases type >> safety in your Wicket applications >> * Component#getModel() and Component#setModel() have been renamed to >> getDefaultModel() and setDefaultModel() to better support generified >> models >> * The Spring modules have been merged (wicket-spring-annot is now >> obsolete, all you need is wicket-spring) >> * Many API's have been altered to better work with Java 5's idioms >> * Wicket jars are now packaged with metadata that makes them OSGI bundles >> >> Apart from these changes, the release is mostly compatible with Wicket >> 1.3 and upgrading shouldn't take too long. Early adopters report about >> a days work to upgrade medium to large applications to Wicket 1.4. >> Read the migration guide to learn more about the changes in our APIs. >> To learn more about all the improvements and new features that went >> into this release, check the solved issue list in our JIRA instance. >> >> If you want to learn more about this release, please refer to the full >> release announcement: >> http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
