Wicket in Action

A comprehensive guide for Java developers building Wicket-based web applications

FOSDEM interview

January 24th, 2011 by dashorst

The FOSDEM organization sent a couple of questions about me and Wicket prior to the FOSDEM 2011 conference. My answers are now online. Enjoy!

Wicket 1.5-RC1 released

January 23rd, 2011 by dashorst

The Wicket Team is proud to introduce the first Release Candidate in Wicket 1.5 series. The 1.5 series provides the following major improvements:

  • A more powerful and flexible request processing pipeline
  • Intercomponent event mechanism
  • Improved configuration
  • More flexible markup loading
  • Better proxy support (x-forwarded-for header)

More detailed migration notes are available on our Migrate to 1.5 Wiki Page

Release Artifacts:

  • Subversion tag
  • Changelog
  • To use in Maven: 
    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
    <artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
    <version>1.5-RC1</version>
</dependency>
  • Download the full distribution (including source)

Wicket at FOSDEM 2011!

January 14th, 2011 by dashorst

I will be speaking about Wicket and the upcoming 1.5 release at FOSDEM 2011. The line-up seems impressive. This will be the first time I’ll attend FOSDEM, or visit Brussels for that matter.

With this book, Wicket will become the greatest territory the Dutch have settled since Manhattan.

Nathan Hamblen
Senior Software Engineer, Teachscape Inc.

This is the complete and authoritative guide to Wicket, written and reviewed by the core members of the Apache Wicket team. If there's anything you want to know about Wicket, you are sure to find it in this book.

Jonathan Locke
Founder and Architect of Apache Wicket, Foreword Wicket in Action

Without question, Wicket in Action... is the be-all and end-all when it comes to Wicket.

Geertjan Wielenga, Wicket Netbeans Plugin Author

The tutorial and conversational tone of the writing makes the book very approachable.

Nick Heudecker
System Mobile

Loved the sample application—it tied everything together.

Phil Hanna
Senior Software Developer, SAS Institute

The essential guide for learning and using Wicket.

Erik van Oosten
Lead programmer and Project Manager, JTeam

Finally, the Web Framework of web frameworks, Apache Wicket, now has a bible of its own.

Per Ejeklint
Senior Software Architect, Heimore group

Wicket is an innovative evolution of the MVC programming with simple roots, but without a primer such as this, it can be more challenging than it needs to be.

Brian Topping
Founder, Bill2 Inc.

Wicket In Action glues the areas of web development with Apache Wicket together and gives a great overview of Apache Wicket...it will make a great compendium.

Nino Martinez Wael
Java Specialist, Jayway Denmark