With the help of Christopher Bergström (codest0m iirc on ##wicket) we came
up with:
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. <a
href="http://wicket.apache.org";>Apache Wicket</a> is one of the fastest
growing Java open source component based web 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. Take a look at some of the following highlights or skip to the bottom
and get started now. <ul> <li>last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be
Java 5 based)</li> <li>first Apache release: renamed packages to <code>
org.apache.wicket</code></li> <li>simplified several core APIs</li> <li>now
works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs</li>
<li>added Google Guice support</li> <li>use your Wicket pages directly in a
portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)</li>
<li>switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j</li> <li>integrate
velocity templates as panels in your pages</li> <li>YUI-calendar and Joda
time based date picker (wicket-datetime)</li> <li>contribute new javascript
dependencies to the page header using an Ajax requeset</li> <li>improved,
more robust header contributions: filter duplicate javascript references,
support onload/ondomready event support, and compress javascript resources
by default</li> <li>scale to extremely large numbers of users with stateless
pages and components</li> <li>improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable</li>
<li>hybrid URL encoding to make search engines and your users happy</li>
<li>create form panels and use them anywhere without worrying about the
nesting of form tags</li> <li>minimized session use by storing component
hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)</li> </ul> Get started today by
checking out the following examples or follow the download link directly at
the bottom. <ul> <li><a href="
http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13/repeater/?wicket:bookmarkablePage=%3Aorg.apache.wicket.examples.repeater.AjaxDataTablePage";>Basic
Ajax Repeater with paging</a></li> <li><a href="
http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13";>Fundamental components</a></li> <li><a
href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0";>Download Apache
Wicket 1.3</a></li> </ul> Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous
2008!
