A Wicket Diary

With Apache Wicket’s graduation extravaganza last week, we are settling down again and contemplating what needs to be done to establish ourselves on the Apache grounds of http://wicket.apache.org.

We already knew that our framework was pretty decent, but hearing mostly positive comments on a usually web framework hostile forum as The ServerSide.com, is really comforting.

You can monitor the progress here: JIRA-675 as we progress through the issues.

Probably the hardest part will be to migrate all subscribers the the Wicket User list that is still hosted on sourceforge.net. We will see if you all need to re-subscribe to the Wicket user list or if the only action you need to take is changing your gmail filter.

We have Graduation! The Wicket project is established as the Apache Wicket project within the Apache Software Foundation.

From Greg Stein:

	-------- Original Message --------
	Subject: Apache Board Meeting, June 20, 2007 (new officers!)
	Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:06 -0700
	From: Greg Stein
	Reply-To: members@
	To: members@

	Hi all,

	Today, the newly-elected Board met for the first time. After we got
	done with our regular series of project reviews and other reports, we
	elected a new slate of executive officers. I'm happy to present that
	list:

	 Jim Jagielski, Chairman
	 Justin Erenkrantz, President
	 J Aaron Farr, Treasurer
	 Sam Ruby, Exec VP and Secretary

	Welcome guys to your new offices!

	We also established new three projects:

	* Apache Quetzalcoatl: this springs mod_python and related bits out of
	the HTTPD project into its own TLP. Gregory Trubetskoy is its Chair.

	* Apache Wicket: this is a light webapp framework for Java, graduating
	from the Incubator into its own TLP. Martijn Dashorst is the new
	Chair.

	* Apache Commons: this is the venerable Apache Jakarta Commons, now
	spun out into its own TLP, with Torsten Curdt as its Chair.

	Finally, we swapped a couple PMC Chairs:

	* Will Glass-Hussin replaces Henning Schmiedehausen as the Velocity Chair
	* David Sean Taylor replaces Santiago Gala as the Portals Chair

	That's it for this month. Please feel free to forward this to any
	public/private forum as you see fit. If you have any questions, then
	please don't hesitate to ask myself or any other Director or officer.

	Cheers,
	-g

From this rather obscure blog, I would like to congratulate all Wicket community members with this remarkable feat! Furthermore, I like to thank the Board of the Apache Software Foundation for the trust they invested in us. We will not disappoint!

I personally would like to thank Wicket’s mentors:

• Alex Karasulu (whose birthday coincidentally is today… what a better gift could you receive). Thanks for bringing us on board!
• Upayavira, who made the transition even run smoother than thought possible. Thanks for guiding us and I hope you’ll stay for a long time with our project!
• Bertrand Delacretaz, thank you for your help, votes and advise. We will miss your involvement, but will certainly see you in the future!
• Sylvain Wallez, also big thanks for helping and guiding us. I hope Wicket is still working within Joost

Finally, congratulations to the new officers, PMC Chairs and the other two new projects: Apache Quetzalcoatl and Apache Commons! Welcome to the club!

Our London chapter has implemented Wicket - Guice integration.

Guice is a dependency injection framework similar to Spring. However, Guice focusses only on the dependency injection, whereas Spring provides a common API for almost any framework on the globe.

Wicket 1.3 starts looking better everyday: our tracker roadmap becomes cleaner everyday.

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Our New York based, close Wicket follower and active blogger Nathan has found a new love: Scala.

Scala is both functional and object oriented, and it can call into Java libraries. In his article Nathan describes how you can use the language as a way to write Wicket applications with an apparent better fit than Groovy.

As Nathan has written a rather long article, I’m not going to repeat him here. Check it out for yourself. If the book ever gets finished, I’ll look into Scala, just as Eelco promised.

Interesting times for innovation in the language space. I can’t wait to get my hands on both Groovy and Scala for a test drive.