Welcome

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.

Highlights

Very easy to learn
Component and Page Oriented design
Event base programming model
Very high performance
Automatic form rendering and client/server side validation
Supports Velocity, JSP or FreeMarker page rendering
Free Open Source with commercial friendly Apache License
Supports JDK 1.4 and later

The design philosophy behind Click is best summarized in the Swedish word lagom which translates to not too little or too much, but optimal.

If you want to dive straight into some code examples see Introduction.

For those interested in the design philosophy and background of the framework, can read Why Click?

The Click project has been lead by Malcolm Edgar and Bob Schellink, and has included contributing developers Phil Barnes, Ahmed Mohombe, Naoki Takezoe, Christian Essl, Stephen Haberman and Ricardo Lecheta.

Latest News

19 October 2008 - Click 1.5 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) available

Release Candidate 3 is available for download. (Please note that 1.5 is not yet production ready. For live deployments use the latest stable release, 1.4.2.)

Click is rapidly progressing towards the 1.5 final release. This release includes the usual bug fixes and new examples.

See the changelog for more details.

If you are upgrading from 1.4 or earlier, please refer to the upgrade path.

29 September 2008 - Click 1.5 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) available

RC1 introduced a severe bug which hampered Click from deploying properly. To resolve this issue we are making RC2 immediately available.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

See the changelog for more details.

If you are upgrading from 1.4 or earlier, please refer to the upgrade path.

28 September 2008 - Click accepted to undergo incubation at Apache Incubator

We are exited to announce that Click has been accepted to undergo incubation at Apache Incubator.

What this means to the Click community is that upon graduation Click will become a Top Level Project at Apache Software Foundation.

This effort also helps to expand and diversify the Click community and build stronger relationships with other Apache projects.

6 March 2008 - ClickIDE 2.0.0. released

ClickIDE 2.0.0 provides support for Click 1.4 as well as Spring and Cayenne. See the changelog for details.