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Wicket is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Books about Wicket

The following books are published regarding Apache Wicket (click a cover to learn more about the book):

Apache Wicket 1.3 is released!

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. Download Apache Wicket 1.3

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• last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
• first Apache release: renamed packages to <code>org.apache.wicket</code>
• simplified models API
• simplified converter API
• simplified validator API
• 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
• use velocity templates as panels in your pages with wicket-velocity
• YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
• improved Ajax support
• improved, more robust header contributions
• filters duplicate javascript references
• supports onload/ondomready events
• javascript resources are gzipped by default
• stateless pages and components for those parts of your application that needs to scale to extremely large numbers of users
• improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
• hybrid URL encoding makes search engines and your users happy
• nested form components?create components—create panels that contain forms and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
• minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)

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