Hi, On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Илья Нарыжный <phan...@ydn.ru> wrote:
> Martin, Andrea, Maxim, > > Thank you all for your answers! > > GA version will be a gift for us for sure:) Yes - we can use Java 8 source > level with Wicket 7, but we have some internal dependency for resolving of > which we need to invest some good amount of time. > Andrea, regarding my second question. It was about compatibility by > features between wicket 7 and wicket 8. Are there something missing in > Wicket which is present in Wicket 7? > Maxim, you wrote about using of Wicket 8 on production. Is that some open > source? Can you send a link? You can make it privately:) > > And guys, you are doing incredible web-framework! Thank you for that. I'm > quite surprised that Wicket is not widely used:) Do you have some > marketing difficulties? > There was more marketing in the early years of Wicket. Lately web developers prefer to use REST server with JS frontend. Some devs love Wicket so much so they use WicketStuff-Rest-Annotations project [1] for the backend :-) But actually Wicket is used by many companies! Maybe 80% of the tweets by https://twitter.com/apache_wicket are "Company XYZ use Apache Wicket for ..." > I personally expect that Wicket 8 release will be followed by some > marketing events, articles and etc. Will be glad to participate in > spreading this web-framework across the World. > > 1. https://github.com/wicketstuff/core/tree/master/wicketstuff-restannotations-parent > Thanks, > Ilia > > --------------------------------------------- > Orienteer(http://orienteer.org) - open source Business Application > Platform > > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 4:10 AM, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Илья Нарыжный <phan...@ydn.ru> wrote: > > > > > Dear Wicket developers, > > > > > > Could you please help with understanding of Wicket 8 status? > > > 1) When do you expect GA version be released? (I mean first official > > > release which is not a candidate and etc.) > > > 2) How accurately Wicket 8 branch currently mimics features from > version > > 7? > > > 3) What the level maturity of wicket 8 M7 to try to use it even on > > > production? Do you recommend? Or it's better to wait? > > > > > > A little bit more context: we are starting to use RxJava 2 in our > > > application platform http://orienteer.org. And it's much more > convenient > > > to > > > use it on Java 8, so we are considering to move the whole our platform > to > > > Java 8, but the main our dependency is Wicket:) > > > > > > > You can use Wicket 7 with Java 8. I guess you already know this. > > > > I'd be interested to hear how it goes with the asynchronous rendering > > (RxJava2 + Wicket)! > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ilia > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > > Orienteer(http://orienteer.org) - open source Business Application > > > Platform > > > > > >
