A Wicket Diary

Wicket needs your input!

The Wicket team is preparing the final Wicket 1.0 release candidate.
Therefore we need your help. If you have things that are hard for you to
accomplish using Wicket, if there is something you posted to the
mailinglist and it didn’t get resolved, if you have a killer idea that
absolutely must be in 1.0 or else…

Send it to the mailinglist or create a bug report!

The Wicket team want the RC3 to be the final release for Wicket 1.0.
After this, development will focus on creating 1.1 with full support for
AJAX, JavaScript, CSS and more.

This is the final call for changes to Wicket 1.0.

With regards,

The Wicket Team

The vote is in… Coming weekend we will be shipping RC2 of the Wicket java web application framework. A lot of problems with the first release candidate are solved, and while some issues are still open, we feel we can’t postpone a new version much longer.

As the popularity of Wicket seems to be growing, the pressure to finalize the 1.0 release grows. It seems I have to disappoint my girlfriend for this weekend again ;-).

Wicket is apparently growing in popularity in the US and Europe, but also in the far east.

Luckily Babelfish can translate most of the message into something that resembles english. I think they need to do some better grammar checking, but it is better to read for someone who doesn’t understand the Chinese characterset.

Finally some information concerning the Maven 2 project. It was really quiet for almost a year! A lot of development has gone into the project, and I haven’t run the project yet, but I’m really exited to try it. The new features include:

• TRANSITIVE DEPENDENCIES
• increased performance due to Java code plugins
• stopped doing double work (jar:jar will only create a jar, from what is in the build dir)

Too bad they don’t have the site generation in place yet as this is the feature I use most. Kudos to the maven2 team!

We added a basic nedstat counter to the Wicket main page, since the sourceforge statistics are offline.

This shows some interesting results:

• almost nobody reads beyond the front page of The ServerSide
• JavaLobby gets quite some visitors
• finding articles (1, 2) I can’t see with google
• large companies and organizations (ANWB, IRS, Ford, etc) all read the front pages

It is really encouraging to see that people are actually looking at the site. We’ve gone up from 30 hits on sunday (the first day the counter was active) to over 1000 today… That does count for something…