On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Now that half of the team is getting ready to work on Wicket 1.4, > which is all about supporting the Java 5 features, I think it is time > for the other half of the team to start talking about Wicket 3.0 (we > skip 2.0 as we've used that for prototyping before), which is > scheduled for 2009. > > We've had some offline talk about this with various team members, and > it seems that we have basic agreement on at least a couple of things: > > * Wicket 3.0 source will be all Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/), > which means quite a transition for our team, but we will still > maintain compatibility with regular Java. I guess, given that lift's abandoning Scala, Wicket should move into the space: http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/90a3014bc96a5248 > > * Relax our policy towards scripting in pages. We're just getting > tired of people having a hard time to do simple things with Wicket, so > in the future we want to support loops, conditionals and property > expressions directly in the markup on top of the facilities we have > now. > * Introduce layout managers. While it is great to be able to directly > code markup with Wicket, we'd like to hide that a bit more and > introduce layout managers as the preferential mechanism for composing > pages and components. > * Swing compatibility. We want our future components to be able to run > directly in Swing, and Swing components to be run in Wicket apps. Just > like some of our competitors. > > WDYT? Comments/ suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Eelco > -- Scala lift off unconference, May 10th 2008, San Francisco http://scalaliftoff.com lift, the secure, simple, powerful web framework http://liftweb.net Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us
