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.

Wicket is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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

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 <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 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.

• Editable Ajax tree table
• All examples
• Download Apache Wicket 1.3

Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008!

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