A Wicket Diary

There is something in the air… All kinds of good stuff is happening in the Wicket community… Here’s a recap of the most recent events:

• Wicket 1.3 released - download it now!
• Dan Syrstad released Wicket Web Beans 1.0. WWB is a component toolkit for displaying and editing POJOs that conform to the JavaBeans specification.
• Matej Knopp has released TreeGrid and DataGrid components as Apache 2.0 Licensed components
• The London Wicket event needs a bigger room
• Maurice Marrink has created a first release candidate for his Wicket security projects Wasp and Swarm
• Wicket in Action is nearing completion - chapter 15 is undergoing a final review round, and Eelco is working hard on completing chapter 14
• Fabulously40.com, a social network for fabulous women over 40 was converted from Ruby on Rails to Wicket. The convert writes:
  

  I recently converted a Rails site to Wicket. Wicket really cuts down on template spaghetti code. I can honestly say that wicket’s OO approach is the right way of doing things for web application development.

• Apache Jetspeed 2.1.3 provides out-of-the-box Wicket Portlet support
• An interview with me in JavaLobby, and in InfoWorld
• Ryan Sonnek implemented improved drag and drop support for scriptaculous
• Google charts has a Wicket implementation
• CSS drop down menus (Suckerfish) available as a wicket stuff project

And we’ve just started 2008, so this will be a big year!

Developer.com has picked the product of 2008 and Apache Wicket was one of finalists in the category Open Source product.

It is very encouraging to see Wicket in the same list as Netbeans, Java 6, JBoss Application Server and Subversion. Interesting tidbit: 4 of the 5 finalists were Java products. Therefore I declare: Java is dead, Long live Java!