Wow - The Wizards of Wicket :) The new and updated website is amazing. I especially liked the section showing technical how-to and other links for the code examples.
Thank you for all the volunteer efforts going behind keeping this project alive and interesting. -Mihir. On Mon, Oct 26, 2026, 6:24 PM Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > To celebrate the upcoming Wicket 11 release, we took a good look at the > Wicket website and set out to make it more modern and better structured. > The result is live now at https://wicket.apache.org. Thanks to everyone > who > voted on the designs! > > The new design gives our beloved framework a seasonal, organic feel. Every > page opens with a photograph that changes with the time of year: this week > that's Halloween, so mind the pumpkin. If your system is set to dark mode, > the site follows it. > > The bigger change is under the hood. The new structure brings all the > wisdom of the excellent reference guide (formerly the User Guide, and still > available) into 138 short pages, each about one particular problem or > aspect: > > - 5 tutorials that take you from an empty project to a tested page with > Ajax > - 97 how-to guides, each for one task > - 15 explainers on why Wicket works the way it does, from models to > serialization > - 21 reference pages > > Each page says which Wicket version it applies to, and the search finds > classes, tasks and terms. If you were afraid to read the 300+ page > reference guide, these friendly, to-the-point pages are for you. The > reference guide itself is still there for every release line, as one page > and as PDF. > > A few other things to look at: > > - How Wicket works (https://wicket.apache.org/start/overview.html) builds > one small order page in seven steps, from plain HTML to a tested page with > Ajax that is secure by default. > - Each release line has its own page with its status, how long it's > supported, the Maven dependency to copy, downloads and the way to upgrade. > - The quick start generates a new Wicket project with Maven in a minute: > https://wicket.apache.org/start/quickstart.html > - Questions, bug reports, reporting a vulnerability and the mailing lists > are now on one Community page. > > Found something broken or missing? Let us know on the users list. > > Martijn, on behalf of the Apache Wicket team >
