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<h1>Welcome</h1>
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Click Framework is a modern JEE web application framework, providing a natural rich client style programming model.
Click is designed to be very easy to learn and use, with developers getting up and running within a day.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:0em;">Highlights</h3>
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<li class="item">Very easy to learn</li>
<li class="item">Component and Page Oriented design</li>
<li class="item">Event base programming model</li>
<li class="item">Very high performance</li>
<li class="item">Automatic form rendering and client/server side validation</li>
<li class="item">Supports Velocity, JSP or FreeMarker page rendering</li>
<li class="item">Free Open Source with commercial friendly Apache License</li>
<li class="item">Supports JDK 1.4 and latter</li>
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The design philosophy behind Click is best summarized in the Swedish word
<b>lagom</b> which translates to <i>not too little or too much, but optimal</i>.
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If you want to dive straight into some code examples see <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a>.
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Otherwise if you what to know why anyone would want to build <i>another</i> web
application framework read
<a href="why-click.html">Why Click</a>?
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The Click project has been lead by <a href="mailto:malcolm.edgar@gmail.com">Malcolm Edgar</a>
and <a href="mailto:sabob1@gmail.com">Bob Schellink</a>,
and has included contributing developers Phil Barnes, Ahmed Mohombe, Naoki Takezoe, Christian Essl,
Stephen Haberman and Ricardo Lecheta.
<h3 style="margin-top:25px">Latest News</h3>
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<div class="news-header">18 May 2008 - Click 1.5 Milestone 1 (M1) released</div>
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We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of the new 1.5 development branch.
1.5 is still undergoing changes and is not ready for production use. Rather consider the
latest stable release, 1.4.2, for live deployments.
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Significant new features in 1.5 include:
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<li class="item"><a href="controls.html#container">Container</a> - new interface for building arbitrary complex, hierarchical Controls.</li>
<li class="item"><a href="click-api/net/sf/click/service/package-summary.html#services">Services</a> - Click core has been refactored into pluggable services.</li>
<li class="item"><a href="mock-api/overview-summary.html">Mock Test Support</a> - introduces an easy to use package to write Unit and Functional Testing.</li>
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A new <a href="click-online.html#powered">Powered by Click</a> section was added. If you would
like to add your own site to this list, please send us a mail to one of our
<a target="blank" class="external" href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=82095">Mailing Lists</a>,
or directly to "sabob1 at gmail.com".
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See the <a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.5-M1">changelog</a>
and <a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.5-M1-upgrade-path">upgrade path</a> for further details.
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<div class="news-header">27 April 2008 - Click 1.4.2 maintenance released</div>
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Click 1.4.2 is a minor maintenance release. This release fixes a problem
when using SpringClickServlet and excluded urls. We have also fixed a
slight performance degradation over the 1.4 release.
See the <a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.4.2">changelog</a> for details.
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<div class="news-header">30 March 2008 - Click 1.4.1 released</div>
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Click 1.4.1 is mainly a bug fix release. Some JSP and Ajax issues were resolved. See the
<a href="roadmap-changes.html">changelog</a> for details.
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<div class="news-header">6 March 2008 - ClickIDE 2.0.0. released</div>
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ClickIDE 2.0.0 provides support for Click 1.4 as well as Spring and Cayenne. See the
<a href="click-ide-roadmap-changes.html">changelog</a> for details.
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