Re: [Wicket-user] Wicket 1.2 released!

>  The Wicket project has released Wicket 1.2. Wicket is a Java component
> based web application framework licensed under the open source Apache 2
> license. Wicket allows Java developers to create highly dynamic web
> applications using plain Java and HTML.
>
> This is the third major release of the Wicket web framework and marks a
> major milestone after 7 months of hard labor by the core team of developers
> and the users of the framework. This release has been anticipated for
> several months and sports many major new features and improvements over
> previous releases. Major features of Wicket 1.2 include:
>  Native, cross-platform AJAX support: use AJAX without having to write a
> single line of JavaScript. Wicket's AJAX cross-platform capabilities have
> been rated 'A'
>  Render multiple components in one AJAX call, where each component can
> occupy any part of the page
>  Improved markup inheritance: panels, pages, header contributions
>  Improved and simplified internationalization (i18n) support, using
> <wicket:message>, better resource bundle lookup strategy
>  Out of the box default resource bundles for many languages, including
> English, German, Spanish, Portugese, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Finnish,
> Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Bulgarian and Farzi (Iranian).
>  Multiple form component validation, validate two or more fields that are
> related
>  Improved form handling: clear form validation workflow that allows you to
> much easier defined required and type conversion attributes of a form
> component
> Nice URL support through URL mounting
> Markup fragments (inline panels)
>  Improved performance by replacing OGNL with our own object graph language
> parser
>  Response filter support, added ServerTime and ServerClientTime filters
>  Reloading of resource bundles in development mode
>  Improved unit test support for your Wicket components and pages through the
> WicketTester, create unittests that run outside the container.
>  Out-of-the-box AJAX components: paging navigator, link with fallback,
> auto-updater, AJAX form, AJAX submit buttons, etc.
>  Improved authorization and authentication support, giving you the power to
> specify authorization at the component level. An example project featuring a
> role based, annotation framework is now part of the standard distribution.
>  Spring support for injecting your business logic into your web pages in a
> non-intrusive manner, while still being able to use the convenient Wicket
> idiom for creating pages (using the Java new operator).
>  Improved settings system: settings are now partitioned into logical
> groupings to make them easier to find
> Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements Wicket runs on any application
> server supporting the servlet API version 2.3 and higher, and will work on
> Java 1.4 SDK's or newer. We have tried to keep API changes to a minimum, but
> had to change and remove some methods and classes. Wicket 1.2 will not be a
> drop-in replacement, though most of your application's pages and components
> should not be affected. There is a migration guide available on our wiki:
> Migrating to Wicket 1.2 The Wicket 1.2 release is a highly anticipated major
> landmark in the history of Wicket.
>
> The core development team wishes to extend their gratitude to all users who
> helped build and test this release.
>
> Enjoy and have fun!
>
> - The Wicket team
>
>