Migrating to Wicket 1.5

Environment

• Wicket 1.5 requires at least Java 5

Removed FormComponent.setPersistence()

WICKET-2213: At the very beginning of Wicket we introduced FormComponent.setPersistence() with the idea to make creating Login panels very easy. Basically Wicket would deal with the Cookie handling for the login details. Now some years later it is evident that this feature is not very useful:

• It basically is used for login panels only
• Even in our examples Password.setPersistence is false which means that "rememberMe" doesn't really work. Only the user name is stored in a Cookie
• Forcing formComponent.getPageRelativePath() as the Cookie name is too restrictive
• You can not combine username and password into a single Cookie and e.g. decrypt it for safety reasons

So we removed that feature and introduced IAuthenticationStrategy. A default implementation has been provided and the examples have been updated. As usual it gets registered with ISecuritySettings.

In case you want to implement your own IAuthenticationStrategy, a utility class org.apache.wicket.util.cookies.CookieUtils has been added.

Upgraded to JUNIT4

We changed the root pom.xml to use junit4 (4.7)

Removed IComponentBorder

The interface has been removed since IBehavior can do exactly the same. MarkupComponentBorder has been migrated, which means you can associated markup to the behavior. Markup which will surround the behavior's component.

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