A Wicket Diary

We just released Wicket 1.3.3 and moved the 1.3 codebase into its own branch to make room for new development.

Johan committed the first go at a generified, Java 5 based Wicket framework during the Wicket Amsterdam Meetup held last tuesday. The meetup was great, and I have video of all the talks. Now I just need to ensure the video is good quality and have to transcode it into a web format. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

So if you depend on Wicket 1.3 and want to build your own Wicket, you should switch your repository to:

• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/branches/wicket-1.3.x

If you are interested in an adventure and dare to move to Java 5 based Wicket you can check out trunk:

• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/trunk

Please note that trunk will be in flux during the next couple of weeks while we iron out the wrinkles of moving to Java 5

The most sound advise I’ve heard regarding hiring developers, which I’d consider solid even outside the realm of Apache Wicket development:

Don’t hire Wicket programmers. Hire good OO programmers with real domain problem analysis skills. ? Jonathan Locke

We are in the middle of replacing old Ajax favorite Dojo with Wicket Ajax in our application. The dojo parts are a left over from our pre Wicket 1.2 days when Ajax was still in its infancy. We still have some places where Dojo is used, and this time it triggered a bug. A co-worker said:

“I thought dojos were extinct” ? Sverre

The Wicket team announces the last maintenance release of Wicket 1.2: Wicket 1.2.7.

This release fixes the remaining issues for Wicket 1.2. For future support we ask you to upgrade to Apache Wicket 1.3 or newer.

This release of the Wicket project is not endorsed or approved by the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Software Foundation is in no way affiliated with this release.

Below are the release notes for Wicket 1.2.7.

- the Wicket team

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A lot has happened and still happening in Wicket land this month. Here’s a summary:

• Eelco got married (actually in Februari but who’s counting)
• We spent a great deal of time on an exotic beach in Thailand celebrating that fact
• Wicket in Action is now in production, meaning that Eelco and I are spending our evenings (and part of the night) applying copy editor improvements, indexing and creating production ready images
• Apache Wicket 1.3.2 has been released
• Wicket in Action is the best selling MEAP book for Manning
• Maurice Marrink has joined the Wicket team
• A new Wicket Community Meetup is in the works (April 8th, Amsterdam)
• The next Wicket version will be a quick one: only generics and a migration to Java 5 (at least looking at the vote results so far)

You are invited to the Wicket meetup, and to cast your vote for the (immediate) future of Wicket.