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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">Component and Page Oriented design</li>
<li class="item">Event base programming model</li>
<li class="item">Automatic form rendering and client/server side validation</li>
<li class="item">Page templating</li>
<li class="item">Velocity and JSP page rendering</li>
<li class="item">High performance</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.
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It is a free and open source project released under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache Software License</a> and runs on any <strong>JDK >= 1.4</strong>.
<h3 style="margin-top:25px">Latest News</h3>
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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 since the 1.4 release.
See the <a href="roadmap-changes.html">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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<div class="news-header">2 March 2008 - Click 1.4 final is available</div>
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Click 1.4 is a major new release. New features include Stateful pages, Control event methods,
Performance Filter and many more. See the full <a href="roadmap-changes.html">changelog</a>
for details.
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