Wicket in Action

Wicket Security: WASP and SWARM 1.4 released!

dashorst — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:12:16 +0000

We are proud to release Wicket Security 1.4 final. Wicket Security is an attempt to create an out of the box reusable authenticating and authorization framework for Apache Wicket. It contains several projects which can be used standalone or in conjunction with each other. After testing the codebase for a while we did not find any issues. [...]

Removing Fragile String Expressions From Wicket Code

ivaynberg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:14:16 +0000

The most used model in Wicket is the PropertyModel and its derivatives. This model allows the user to quickly and easily navigate object graphs using string-based property-path expressions, and is used extensively when displaying data or creating forms. However, the PropertyModel and its string-based expressions are also responsible for adding the most fragility to Wicket code. [...]

London Wicket Event November 21st

dashorst — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:24:13 +0000

Something special is brewing in downtown London on Saturday, 21st November. jWeekend is organizing a very special event at the iconic Foyles Bookshop in central London. Join core committers Matej, Alastair, Jeremy and Martijn together with WiQuery gurus Richard and Lionel for an afternoon of intellectual Wicketness. Join us for some very interesting, high quality presentations [...]

Timo Rantalaiho talks about Apache

dashorst — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:04:30 +0000

Fellow Apache Wicket committer and TDD enthousiast Timo Rantalaiho discusses how he came to Apache in this Apache 10th anniversary video: Take a look at his shirt :)

Wicket takes lead in test over Grails, JSF/Seam and Tapestry

dashorst — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:22:21 +0000

Peter Thomas, renowned for his previous comparisons between web frameworks has put all the popular choices of the moment next to one another in one short article. I haven’t tried the benchmark myself, but I like the results: Overall, Wicket is fastest, with Tapestry coming a close second. Read it yourself, and then confirm the results yourself.

Wicket 1.4.1 supports Ajax file uploads

dashorst — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:36:55 +0000

The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the first maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.4.1. The most notable change in this release is the transparent support for multipart form submissions via Ajax. Wicket is now smart enough to submit a form using a hidden iframe rather then the standard XMLHttpRequest if the form contains file [...]

Apache Wicket 1.4 takes type safety to the next level

dashorst — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:55:30 +0000

The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the release of Apache Wicket 1.4. Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented Java web application framework. With overwhelming support from the user community, this release marks a departure from the past where we leave Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum [...]

Apache Wicket 1.3.7 marks end of life for Wicket 1.3

dashorst — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:07:35 +0000

The Apache Wicket team is proud to present the release of Apache Wicket 1.3.7. This will be the last feature release for the 1.3.x branch. Going forward, only security fixes will be released in the 1.3.x branch - meaning that 1.3.7 may be the last release in this branch. All users are encouraged to upgrade to 1.4.0 as soon as possible. As work begins on 1.5 in the near future, we will be supporting 1.4.x and 1.5.x.

Wicket Training at ApacheCon US 2009

jrthomerson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:31:20 +0000

I am very happy to announce that there will be a one day training course at the 2009 ApacheCon conference in Oakland, CA (USA). Before I tell you more about it, consider the following “top ten” list: Top Ten Reasons You Should Attend ApacheCon US 2009: 10: Hacking is encouraged at the Apache Hackathon two day event. 9: [...]

Wicket in Action review by jduchess

dashorst — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:10:50 +0000

The Dutch female Java developer community website jduchess has written up a review of Wicket in Action. They provide a nice summary per chapter detailing the contents of each, and conclude: Wicket in Action is the perfect book if you want to get started with Wicket. [...] It’s also a good book if you’ve already been [...]