+1 to drop all these modules Thanks for this :) On Sun, 11 Oct 2026 at 19:08, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had my agent inventory the wicketstuff core modules and it found several > modules that are no longer relevant to modern day Wicket and Web. > > The inventory is in this ticket: > https://github.com/wicketstuff/core/issues/1592. And for each module I > crafted a separate ticket. > > If you don't agree with the removal of the modules, please close the ticket > with a comment. Next week I'll instruct my agent to remove all modules that > still have an open ticket. > > FYI: this is the list and reasoning: > > yui-parent > Bundles YUI 2.9.0. YUI 2 was abandoned in 2011 and all of YUI in 2014. > > wicketstuff-datetime-yui-parent > Same YUI 2 bundle (yuiloader, yahoo-dom-event), and still on Joda-Time. > > wicket-datetime-parent > The old Joda-Time DateTextField/DatePicker that was removed from core in > Wicket 8. wicket-extensions has had java.time equivalents since then. > Its > DatePicker also runs on YUI. > > googlecharts-parent > Builds URLs for chart.apis.google.com/chart, the Image Charts API Google > shut down in 2019. gchart covers the interactive API. > > flot-parent > Bundles Flot 0.5 (2009) plus excanvas.js, a canvas shim for IE <= 8. > > jqplot-parent > jqPlot 1.0.9. The project has been dead since 2016. > > simile-timeline-parent > MIT SIMILE has been abandoned for over a decade and the code still > points > to static.simile.mit.edu. Maxim fixed it and added examples this year, > so > he may want to keep it. > > openlayers-parent > OpenLayers 2 loaded over http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js. > openlayers3-parent already covers OL 10.7. > > htmlcompressor-parent > Depends on Google Code's htmlcompressor 1.5.x, which has been abandoned > for over ten years. With gzip/brotli the gain is negligible. > > gae-initializer-parent > "Wicket1.5 on Google AppEngine", on App Engine SDK 1.9.77 for the Java 8 > runtime. Google stopped allowing Java 8 deployments on 31 January 2026, > and Wicket 10 needs Java 17 anyway. > > wicketstuff-glassfish4-integration > A serializer for CDI proxies in GlassFish 3.1-4.0 (2013). > > wicket-bundle-parent > Repackages wicket-core/util/request into one OSGi bundle, and wicket-ioc > with cglib. The Wicket 10 jars are OSGi bundles themselves > (Bundle-SymbolicName: org.apache.wicket.core), and wicket-ioc now uses > ByteBuddy. > > wicket-facebook-parent > LikeBox, Facepile, ActivityFeed, Recommendations and LiveStream were > removed by Facebook around 2015. The Like button and Comments plugin > have > rendered as an empty 0x0 element since 10 February 2026. > > nashorn-parent > Its point is sandboxed server-side JavaScript through > NashornSecurityManager extends SecurityManager. The SecurityManager has > been permanently disabled since JDK 24 (JEP 486), so the sandbox no > longer > works on current JDKs. > > Removing these modules that are obsolete will save up considerable build > and release time. > > Martijn
-- Best regards, Maxim
