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Starting the new year with a bang the Apache Wicket Team has released Apache Wicket 1.3. With this release comes a lot of great successes, but most of all the team wanted to express their wishes to everyone for a happy new year.

You can download Apache Wicket 1.3 here:

http://wicket.apache.org/getting-wicket.html

Apache Wicket is one of the fastest growing Java open source component based web frameworks. With a focus on producing valid html and a logical separation between design and code. Within minutes you can start to enjoy throwing out tag soup, complex components and high maintenance overhead for a simple POJO + html data model.

See the Apache Wicket website for more information:

http://wicket.apache.org

Take a look at some of the following highlights or skip to the bottom and get started now.

• last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
• first Apache release: renamed packages to org.apache.wicket
• simplified several core APIs
• now works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs
• added Google Guice support
• use your Wicket pages directly in a portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)
• switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j
• integrate velocity templates as panels in your pages
• YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
• contribute new javascript dependencies to the page header using an Ajax requeset
• improved, more robust header contributions
• scale to extremely large numbers of users with stateless pages and components
• improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
• hybrid URL encoding to make search engines and your users happy
• create form panels and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
• minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)

Get started today by downloading Wicket using this link:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0

The distribution contains all the Wicket libraries, and all the source code including the examples project. In the root of the download you will find a README document with full instructions.

Migrate your Wicket 1.2 application to Wicket 1.3 using our migration guide:

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-12.html

Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008

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– The Apache Wicket Team

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