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<h1>Welcome</h1>
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Apache Click 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 later</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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For those interested in the design philosophy and background of the framework,
can read <a href="why-click.html">Why Click</a>.
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The Click project includes contributions by <a href="mailto:malcolm.edgar@gmail.com">Malcolm Edgar</a>,
<a href="mailto:sabob1@gmail.com">Bob Schellink</a>,
Naoki Takezoe, Phil Barnes, Ahmed Mohombe, Christian Essl, Stephen Haberman and
Ricardo Lecheta.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:0em;">Disclaimer</h3>
<p><em>Apache Click</em> is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation
is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates
that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have
stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While
incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or
stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully
endorsed by the ASF.
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<h3 style="margin-top:25px">Latest News</h3>
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<div class="news-header">15 February 2009 - Apache Click 2.0.1 released</div>
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Click 2.0.1 is the first release from the Apache Software Foundation Incubator
and is based on the 1.5.1 code base.
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Download it <a class="external" target="_blank" href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/click/click/2.0.1/click-2.0.1-incubating.zip">here</a>.
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Please see the <a class="external" target="_blank" href="http://click-framework.blogspot.com/2009/01/click-201-now-available.html">announcement</a>
and <a href="roadmap-changes.html#2.0.1">changelog</a> for more details.
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If you are upgrading from 1.4 or earlier, please refer to the 1.5
<a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.5-upgrade-path">upgrade path</a>.
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<div class="news-header">23 January 2009 - Click 1.5.1 released</div>
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Click 1.5.1 is a maintenance release which includes Turkish language
support, improved exception handling and some minor bug fixes.
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Download <a class="external" target="_blank" href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82095&package_id=84113">here</a>.
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Please see the <a class="external" target="_blank" href="http://click-framework.blogspot.com/2009/01/click-151-now-available.html">announcement</a>
and <a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.5.1">changelog</a> for more details.
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If you are upgrading from 1.4 or earlier, please refer to the
<a href="roadmap-changes.html#1.5-upgrade-path">upgrade path</a>.
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<div class="news-header">9 November 2008 - ClickIDE 2.1.0. released</div>
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ClickIDE 2.1.0 is available for <a class="external" target="_blank" href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82095&package_id=84113">download</a>.
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2.1.0 provides support for Click 1.5 and Eclipse 3.4 / WTP 3.0.
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Installation instructions can be found <a href="click-ide.html">here</a>.
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