Wicket 1.1-beta 1,  an open source  Java web application framework, is available for download and testing. This is a beta release, which means that API's might change. Most notable features in this release are:

- JavaScript support - components can now contribute their own JavaScript to a page, opening up possibilities for very rich Wicket components.
- CSS support - alongside with the JavaScript support, Wicket allows components to contribute their CSS to a page
- Markup inheritence - Wicket pages were already able to inherit on the Java side, but now it is possible to 'constrain' the markup of sub pages to a certain place in the markup. If you thought that borders were difficult, this will make your life very easy!
- Date picker - as a demonstrator for what you can do with our new JavaScript support, we have included a Date picker component in the wicket extensions package.
- Component reference examples - an ongoing concern: documentation and component reference. We have started building small component examples in the Wicket examples project.

Wicket pages can be mocked up, previewed and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools. Dynamic content processing and form handling is all handled in Java code using a first-class component model backed by POJO data beans that can easily be persisted using your favourite technology.

To read more and download visit http://wicket.sourceforge.net/index.html