Foi lançada a nova versão do framework Apache Wicket que agora já tem uma versão estável (1.3) e graduada pela Apache.
Apache Wicket é um framework web baseado em componentes seguindo a idéia e o "estilo de programação" com swing, conseguindo assim uma programação mais OO.
Como é um projeto graduado, possui o mesmo destaque de outros projetos já consagrados da Apache como Struts, Maven, Tomcat, Velocity, entre outros

Segue abaixo algumas melhorias e novidades:

Apache wrote:
* last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
* first Apache release: renamed packages to <code>org.apache.wicket</code>
* simplified models API
* simplified converter API
* simplified validator API
* now works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs
* added Google Guice support
* use your Wicket pages directly in a portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)
* switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j
* use velocity templates as panels in your pages with wicket-velocity
* YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
* improved Ajax support
* improved, more robust header contributions
* filters duplicate javascript references
* supports onload/ondomready events
* javascript resources are gzipped by default
* stateless pages and components for those parts of your application that needs to scale to extremely large numbers of users
* improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
* hybrid URL encoding makes search engines and your users happy
* nested form components?create panels that contain forms and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
* minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)