Done. See my message to users@ for the details.

Martijn


On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 3:54 AM Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]>
wrote:

> +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
>


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