As far as I remember (and please correct me if I'm wrong), support and updates for Wicket 1.3 were ended rather quickly after the release of 1.4. That's okay, since the team has limited resources. But it becomes a pretty serious problem if that means you'll cut off everybody who can't yet move up to Java 1.6.
Java 1.5 adoption was pretty much everywhere when Wicket moved up to it. The same is not true for Java 1.6 at this time. Carl-Eric -- Carl-Eric Menzel Das neue deutschsprachige Wicketbuch: Wicket: Komponentenbasierte Webanwendungen in Java http://www.wicketbuch.de/ On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:40:50 +0100 Korbinian Bachl - privat <korbinian.ba...@whiskyworld.de> wrote: > 1.5 will be a major one, not minor - so where's the point? > > Best, > > Korbinian > > Carl-Eric Menzel schrieb: > > Because, from their (admittedly conservative) point of view, you > > don't move essential systems to a platform before you really know > > it. Or before your tool vendor finally manages to update their > > product to be compatible with 1.5. These are organizations that > > have to be extremely careful. Why do you think Sun is still > > offering paid support for 1.5? > > > > It doesn't really matter why they are sticking with 1.5, however. > > What really matters is this: There are organizations for whom > > stability in the core is more important than having the new > > features. At the same time, however, they want to be able to update > > less essential things like a GUI framework for as long as possible. > > If you tell them now they won't be able to use Wicket after the > > next minor(!) release and won't get any support for the old > > version, they'll go ahead and use Struts. Okay, that last one is > > maybe a bit exaggerated, but you get what I mean. > > > > Carl-Eric > >
