Every release is announced through our mailing lists and the official Apache announcements list. We also publish a news item on our website with the announcement, and it is also published in our RSS feed (handy for RSS readers).
Here are the most recent headlines:
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The complete articles and all other news items are available in the [archives]({{ site.baseurl }}/news).
Learn building web applications with Wicket from scratch reading its 200+ page user guide. The guide gradually introduces you to the various features of the framework with many real-world examples. It covers subjects such as models, behaviours, testing and integration with other projects.
The guide is available as PDF or html file for the following versions:
You can use the guide for older releases even though there will be differences. We urge you however to upgrade your project to the latest stable release rather than sticking on an older version.
Learn Wicket in the good old way!
Over the course of Wicket‘s existence the project was featured on many conferences. Some presentations were recorded on video, others have published their slides online. Here’s a list of available videos and presentations:
Each release of Wicket comes with sources, including JavaDocs. When you use Maven for dependency management, your IDE will automatically download the source JARs and when you hover on a Wicket class or method, show you the corresponding documentation.
For reference we also publish the API documentation online so you can link to it from emails or websites:
We also publish the JavaDocs for our next version which is still under development:
With a history of over 10 years many developers have dedicated blog posts to Wicket. Here's a list of blogs that have helped thousands of new Wicket developers get started:
If you think your blog is missing, then please send a message to one of the core contributors or the mailinglist. In the mean time you can add your blog to our wiki's special blog page.
When you upgrade your application from an older Wicket version to a newer version you can run into all of the changes that were applied to Wicket's API. We have done our best to document all the changes and provide migration paths between the different Wicket versions.
Here's a list of the migration guides:
If you encounter a change that was not in the migration guide, don't hesitate to notify us.
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Wicket is well supported by the three main Java IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ and Eclipse). Find [here]({{ site.baseurl }}/contribute/ides.html) how to work with Wicket projects with your favourite IDE.