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Creating and Extending Apache Wicket Web Applications

Topics
Java,
Web Frameworks

Apache Wicket is a powerful, light-weight component-based web application framework with strong separation of presentation and business logic. It enables you to create quality Web 2.0 applications which are easy to test, debug and support.

News about Wicket

Apache Wicket 1.5 Released

Topics
Java,
Open Source

The Apache Wicket project has released version 1.5 of its open source, component oriented Java web application framework, with new HTML 5 components, and Improvements to the message/event model.

Apache Wicket 1.4 Released

Topics
Java,
Web Frameworks

The Apache Wicket project has released version 1.4 of its open source, component oriented Java web application framework. This is their first release that requires Java 5 and above which allows for the use of Java 5 idioms like the generics which increase type safety of the APIs

ModuleFusion 1.0.2 Released: Enterprise OSGi Distribution

Topics
Composite Application,
Java,
Application Servers,
Open Source,
Enterprise Application Blocks

ModuleFusion 1.0.2, an OSGi service stack designed for enterprise applications, was released. The distribution includes frameworks such as Google Guice, Hibernate, and Jetty, packaged as bundles.

Apache Wicket 1.3.1 Release Supports Transparent Clustering

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Open Source,
Web Frameworks,
Announcements,
Performance & Scalability

The Wicket team has announced Wicket 1.3.1, the first maintenance release of Wicket 1.3. 1.3.1 adds transparent clustering support out-of-the-box.

Raible Revisits Comparing Web Frameworks

Topics
Java,
Web Frameworks

This past week Matt Raible gave a presentation at ApacheCon comparing Java Web Frameworks. This is a follow up to a presentation he gave a few years ago. It is interesting to note the changes in the frameworks being evaluated.

A Wicket User Revisits JSF

Topics
Java,
Web Frameworks

Peter Thomas recently took a second look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. Thomas uses the creation of a simple discussion forum for his comparison showing various portions of each implementation side by side including web.xml, dependencies, and business/presentation components.

Wicket support on Terracotta nears completion

Topics
Java,
Clustering & Caching

The Wicket and Terracotta teams have Wicket up and running on Open Terracotta. Support is still not complete, but most of the examples that ship with Wicket now run without any problems. As soon as they have all the kinks out, Terracotta will put the configuration into a Terracotta config module.

Wicket compared with Spring WebFlow

Topics
Java,
Web Frameworks

Peter Thomas has written a detailed article about his impressions of moving a Spring MVC application to Wicket. He took a few screens from JTrac and ported them to Wicket and ended up very pleased with what Wicket had to offer.