Apache Wicket 1.3 is released!

Jan 2, 2007

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

Apache Wicket is one of the fastest growing Java open source component based frameworks. With a focus on producing valid html and a logical separation between design and code. Within minutes you can start to enjoy throwing out tag soup, complex components and high maintenance overhead for a simple POJO + html data model.

last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
first Apache release: renamed packages to org.apache.wicket
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 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)

Get started today by checking out the following examples or follow the download link directly at the bottom.

Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008!

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Apache Wicket 1.3 is released!