October 30, 2005 - Wicket 1.1 Available

The Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of Wicket 1.1 for download! Wicket is a Java component oriented web application framework that takes simplicity, separation of concerns and easy of use to a whole new level. Wicket web applications consist of HTML markup and Java classes. No strange languages, no strange markup, no configuration files , no specialized, expensive tools: just Java, HTML and you.

This Wicket version contains a lot of improvements from the 1.0 version. New features include:

• Simplified feedback and validation - enables custom feedback strategies
• Live Component Reference - the examples project contains a component reference showing how to use the components.
• JavaScript and CSS support for components - contribute JavaScript and CSS from your component to the using page
• Markup Inheritance - enables template pages and components
• Inclusion of external markup
• Simplified Choice component - creating drop down, radio and list components was never this easy
• Less dependencies - we removed several library dependencies
• Customizable Form handling - easy for quick forms, easily enables full custom form processing
• Improved resource handling
• Date picker component - will not get you dates, but a JavaScript and text field enabled localized calendar component.
• Improved URL handling
• AJAX request handling support - support for two leading AJAX JavaScript libraries is available as separate downloads from our Wicket Stuff project: scriptaculous and DOJO toolkit

The Wicket team wishes to extend their gratitude to the user and developer community for their testing efforts and help, making this release a reality! The Wicket 1.1 distribution can be downloaded from the SourceForge servers by following this link. The Wicket 1.1 release documentation can be found at: http://wicket.sourceforge.net/wicket-1.1 Thank you for downloading and using Wicket! - the Wicket Team

October 19, 2005 - Moved to Wicket home

The Wicket Quickstart project has been upgraded from the Wicket Stuff project and moved to the Wicket core project. In preparation for the Wicket 1.1 release, we have updated the project with regard to the following sections:

• now includes an Ant build.xml file for building your WAR archive using Apache Ant
• now includes a Maven 1 project descriptor for those that want to build their project using Apache Maven (1.0.x and 1.1)
• now also includes a sysdeo Tomcat plugin configuration file, so you can now run the project directly using the Eclipse tomcat plugin.

Juli 17, 2005 - NetBeans Guide available

Thanks to the writing talents of Geertjan Wielenga we now have a full NetBeans kickstart description.

Juli 17, 2005 - Wicket 1.0.1 maintenance release available

The first maintenance release of the 1.0 release of Wicket is available. The Kickstart project has been updated to reflect this maintenance release.

June 7, 2005 - Wicket 1.0 final Launched!

With the launch of Wicket 1.0 final we also upgraded the Wicket Kickstart project to be 1.0 based.

May 4, 2005 - Eclipse Live Demo added

Using Wink we have put together a live Eclipse Demo showing how to get started developing your first Wicket application.

April 18, 2005 - Netbeans guide added

Finally we have a Netbeans guide for running the kick start project in Netbeans.

April 15, 2005 - QuickStart has moved

The project formerly known as 'Wicket QuickStart' has moved into the Wicket Stuff project and has been renamed to 'Wicket Kick Start'.