Welcome to Apache Wicket

With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML.

• Check the feature list
• Read some Wicket buzz, some Wicket blogs or Planet Wicket
• Find out why you should use Wicket
• Check out some selected examples in detail or see them and many more in live action
• Take a look at our live component reference
• Go and download Wicket.
• See what extras are available

Wicket is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Apache Wicket 1.3.5 is released!

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the fifth
maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.5. A lot of bugs have been squashed and
several improvements implemented. It is recommended you update to Wicket 1.3.5
at your earliest convenience.

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

• Download 1.3.5 now!
• Release notes

We thank you for your patience and support.

We thank you for your patience and support.

• The Wicket Team

Apache Wicket 1.4-m3 with improved generics

Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket based web application development. We have released our third and hopefully final milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics.

This release is our final take on how to apply generics to our codebase with restraint. We hope to provide an elegant programming model without having to specify generic parameters everywhere, while still providing type safety when you need it.

A significant change from the earlier Wicket 1.4 milestone versions is that Component is no longer generified. This means that Component and most of its subclasses in Wicket do not take a class-level type parameter. Some Component subclasses remain generified, such as Link, Form, FormComponent, ListView, etc. You can read more details regarding these changes here:

• New and noteworthy in 1.4-m3
• New generics discussion

We feel that this might provide a good middle ground between being unable to add typing to IModel on one hand and a proliferation of unneeded typing information on modelless components on the other hand. Your feedback is appreciated!

Download Wicket 1.4-m3 now and help us decide whether to tone down, remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We have started the discussion on the user mailing list:

• What is your take on generics with Wicket

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

• http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3

We thank you for your patience and support.

The Wicket Team

Books about Wicket

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

Community meetings

The Wicket community is a very active community. The mailing lists and the irc channel are proof of that. But for those that prefer face to face meetings, several community members have organized meetups.

If you are interested in attending one of these events, please add yourself to the appropriate event, or if you want to organize such a meetup yourself, add it to the community meetups page