Januari 25, 2006 - Wicket 1.1.1 Available

After a couple of months without any significant problem the Wicket team has made available the first maintenance release of Wicket 1.1. This release features a backport of a Wicket 1.2 feature: the <wicket:message> tag, which enables you to create internationalized pages without having to resort to adding Label components with StringResourceModel for internationalizing the texts on a page. See the WicketMessageResolver JavaDoc for more information.

Further enhancements include:

• Added check and better exception when servlet's init param is missing
• Added label tags for generated input tags in CheckBoxMultipleChoice and RadioChoice
• Fixed autolink NPE problem
• Fixed bug in button that caused the value attirbute to disappear after form submit

Together with this release, the Wicket extensions project receives a maintance release.

This release is available through the download pages on SourceForge.

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