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See how to integrate colum chooser with Grid, Listbox or any tabular components to conveniently arrange columns!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:52:35 GMT

Column chooser is very convenient for arranging columns. See how you can easily integrate it with Grid, lisbox or any tabular components. Read.

Read IBM XPages Winner Dennis Chen's Interview in Spanish translated by Maria Ramos from Webhostinghub

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:57:33 GMT

This page has been translated into Spanish language by Maria Ramos from Webhostinghub.com/support/edu.

[Spanish] An introduction of ZK including, strengths & values, architecture & a brief outline of ZK Essentials

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:54:00 GMT

An introduction of ZK framework along with a brief outline of ZK Essentials in Spanish.

Read to learn how you can use ZK Pivottable inside a JSP page for your web application!

Thu, 30 May 2013 09:12:42 GMT

ZK Pivottable t brings the power of spreadsheet’s pivot table functionality to Java web applications.This blog post will demonstrate how ZK Pivottable can be used inside a JSP page.

Learn how to use columnlayout to create a web page & effectively make use of the space of the page's layout

Tue, 28 May 2013 08:36:45 GMT

There are times when we can utilize a layout component such as the columnlayout to effectively make use of the space of the page layout...read more

Based on HTML5 canvas, ZK Graphics component utilizes CSS3 syntax so users can customize animations more easily using pure Java.

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:34:53 GMT

ZK Graphics component is a component based on HTML5 canvas, which utilize CSS3 transition and transform effects so users can customize the animation more easily with Pure Java, shielding them from any JavaScript. Read more.

Manipulate components inside a macro: add additional components to a wired component inside a macro component.

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:15:30 GMT

This blog will show how you can add additional components to a wired component inside a macro component using a breadcrumb macro as en example. Read.

This article shows you how to create a MongoDB application using ZKGrails 2.2. Credits to Chanwit Kaewkasi.

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:57:22 GMT

At the end of this article, you will find yourself be able to create a simple MongoDB application with ZK and Grails.

Learn how to build a simple profile keeping application and customize a theme for each user. By Senthil Muthiah.

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:39:30 GMT

This article by Senthil Muthiah will teach you how to build a simple profile keeping application and customize a theme for each user. Demo.

[French] Article on how to create your own ZK component from a JavaScript component shelf by G�rald Quintana

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:58:32 GMT

Sometimes we want to use an existing JavaScript library in our ZK app. This article explains how you can develop your own ZK component from a JavaScript component shelf (Google Chart in this case). Read.

An article that shows you how to use a macro component to create a keypad component.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:06:20 GMT

This article describes how you can create a keypad component by utilizing ZK macro component.

A step by step article on how to create simple CRUD application using ZK with Spring 3 and JPA, by Senthil Muthiah.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:44:41 GMT

This article will explain you step by step how to create simple CRUD application using ZK as Presentation layer with Spring 3 and JPA (Hibernate vendor). Read.

The NEW ZK Essentials is now available online! A book to walk you through key concepts & features by building a working application from scratch. Start now!

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:53:00 GMT

The NEW ZK Essentials is devided into 10 chapters to walk you through key concepts and features step by step by culding a working application from the ground up. Get started now!

[Russian] ZK Getting Started: Learn ZK in 10min is translated to Russian language by Michael Popov from Bizow.com

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:22:23 GMT

ZK's Getting Started tutorial "Learn ZK in 10 minutes" has been translated to Russian language by Michael Popov from Bizow.com.

Orgchart : a tree browser that offers a convenient way for displaying data, inspired by JS InfoVis Toolkit's Space Tree

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:26:55 GMT

Orgchart is a tree browser (or the so called SpaceTree) that offers a convenient way to display data, inspired by JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit. Read more.

See how to integrate Spring Security with ZK seamlessly by going through the construction of a simple demo application

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:48:41 GMT

See how Spring Security can be adapted with a specific Ajax request handling mechanism of an Ajax framework.

ZK Jqplot, a new add-on component integrating JavaScript library jqPlot for plotting charts in ZK

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:26:50 GMT

A new chartting add-on component that integrates Javascript chartting library, jqPlot. Works well on most browser (including IE6) and overcomes some shortages of the current charting solution in ZK.

Introducing add-on component, Rowlayout: building a fluid grid system with column offsetting features

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:02:52 GMT

Rowlayout component is an add-on component that allows the customization of the grid specification either declaratively or programmatically; building a fluid grid system with column offsetting feature

[Spanish] ZK Framework published in the latest issue of Bolivian Press Atix Libre Magazine! Click to Read!

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:32:48 GMT

ZK Framework mentioned in the latest issue of Atix Libre Magazine with a brieft introduction, basic environment settings and configurations.

Integrate 3rd Party Javascript Libraries In ZK Using Clientside Controller to be more readable, reusable and easy to maintain.

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:40:52 GMT

This article will demonstrate few advanced concepts of ZK client side programming allowing you to define a client side controller to encapsulate 3rd party JS library integration to make it more readable, reusable and easy to maintain.

Read Part II of "A Developer?s Diary by Ron Grimes" of Sinclair, this time about "The Project"

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:41:47 GMT

In this article, Ron continues to talk about their project that was ZK-powered. Read.

This article will demonstrate how to build user interface programmatically using a Richlet

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:24:07 GMT

In article, we will demonstrate how you can build user interface programmatically using a Richlet by building a simple search application.

A Developer?s Diary by Ron Grimes of Sinclair, sharing their experience moving from Adobe Flex to ZK

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:40:28 GMT

In this article Ron shares their experiences in moving from Adobe Flex to ZK in depth. Read.

ZK 6.5.2 preview: New themes are created & packaged in folders for easier & faster theme customizations

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:02:21 GMT

In upcoming ZK 6.5.2, themes can be packaged inside a folder. New themes can be created by first cloning the folder containing an existing theme and then making necessary changes to the stylesheets & images.

A blog on "How to deploy ZK Applications to Jelastic Cloud" by Marina Sprava

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:17:04 GMT

Marina Sprava talks about how to deploy ZK Applications to Jelastic Cloud. Read.

"Embedding a ZK application inside a WordPress page" by Contributor Cancan Gunadi

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:57:55 GMT

Check out how to embed a ZK application inside a WordPress page by Cancan Gunadi. Read blog.

See Simon Massey's newest article on server-side pagination with ZK, MongoDB & Google Maps on Dzone!

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:03:08 GMT

Simon has released a new article on Dzone about serverside Pagination with ZK, Spring Data MongoDB and Google Maps! Dont miss it! Read.

ZKPushState: A ZK Addon to Handle HTML5 History API in Pure Java

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:53:50 GMT

The blog will go through through how you can use HTML 5 history API in ZK using Java code.

A way to handle huge data in ZK Pivottable by doing data paging; reducing memory consumption & speed up processing time

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:38:11 GMT

This article presents a way to handle huge data in ZK Pivottable by doing data paging manually. With this approach it can reduce memory consumption and speed up the processing time when the data is huge.

Check out an easy way to create an exporting function; transforming ZK Grid or Listbox to PDF or Excel

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:14:54 GMT

This small talk is going to introduce an easy way where you can use a ready-to-use library to create such function; transforming ZK Grid or Listbox to PDF/Excel by leveraging the PdfExporter and ExcelExporter utilities.

New feature preview: Soon to release ZK 6.5.1 supports HTML 5 API to control page visibility.

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:38:37 GMT

An example of how you can use HTML API to control page visibility in ZK powered applications.

This small talk will demonstrate how to communicate between Spring MVC to ZK MVVM.

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:47:52 GMT

This article will demonstrate how to communicate between Spring MVC to ZK MVVM with a simple shopping cart as an example.

A guideline on how to use and apply ZK 6.5's responsive design to your application!

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:57:15 GMT

This small talk will introduce features of ZK 6.5 that help developers achieve responsive web design.

Learn how to integrate ZK with a third party Javascript library and leverage client side control

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:21:29 GMT

This smalltalk will demonstrate to you how you can integrate a third party Javascript library and leverage client side control of UI

Contributor Alain & Zied introduces new "ZHighCharts" based on Highcharts JS library, to create modern & intuitive charts

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:44:47 GMT

Contributor Alain Galdemas & Zied Zaim created a new component "ZHighCharts", based on Highcharts JS library which offers an easy way for users to create modern and intuitive charts.

ZK Webcam Component: communicates with a camera directly based on jQuery webcam plugin

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:06:11 GMT

ZK Webcam: communicates with a camera directly based on the jQuery webcam plugin and also integrating another ZK component, canvas4z for previewing snapshots.

Separate Codebase for Mobile? You?re Doing it Wrong! Read the exclusive thought of ZK Team & make your choice.

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:03:37 GMT

While working on the new version of ZK the question kept popping up, what do people want? If you could improve ZK, what would you do? Read more.

ZK on Dzone - ZK Gritter: Growl-like notifications for ZK apps. Credits to contributor Joonas Javanainen

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:16:51 GMT

Jawwa ZK Gritter is an open source library that can be used to add Growl-like notifications to ZK apps.... Read more.

Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI Updates and Background Processing ? Part 2 on Dzone by contributor Joonas Javanainen

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:36:12 GMT

Contributor Joonas Javanainen has published Part 2 of his article "Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI Updates and Background Processing" on Dzone.

Practices Of Using Spring In ZK: How to integrate ZK, Spring and Hibernate together to build a web application.

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:26:02 GMT

This small talk will guide you through detail configuration of this application stack and with some programming tips of the Spring part design.

Two ways to handle collection object in MVVM: "Model" attribute & Children binding

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:46:14 GMT

This small talk will guide you through the two ways: model attribute & children binding to handle a collection type object when using MVVM.

Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI updates and background processing by contributor Joonas Javanainen on Java Code Geeks

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:35:20 GMT

Joonas's article "Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI updates and background processing" has been reposted by Nikos Maravitsas on Java Code Geeks

Collaborator Francisco Ferri has written a tutorial for starting "Your first web project with ZK" on JavaHispano [Spanish]

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:22:01 GMT

Spanish collaborator Francisco Ferri has published a tutorial on JavaHispano on how to start "your first web project with ZK"

Make the most of ZK 6.5 with tablet programming tips provided by one of ZK's core developers Monty Pan

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:04:47 GMT

This smalltalk looks gives tips on how to deliver the best experience possible on tablets with ZK 6.5

Contributor Chanwit has written an article on Dzone on "jQuery-style Enterprise Application Development with ZK & Grails"

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:14:28 GMT

Contributor Chanwit has published a Dzone article on "jQuery-style Enterprise Application Development with ZK & Grails". Please click here for more information.

Practices Of Using CDI In ZK : programming practices of each layer & possible solutions for common scenarios

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:19:19 GMT

Continual to Starting A Web Application Based On ZK CDI JPA and Jetty, this small talk introduces some programming practices to each layer & possible solutions for some common scenarios. Read more.

Check out how ZK component supports tablet scrolling & some tips on migrating from desktop to tablet.

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:29:43 GMT

This article will introduce to you the theorem of tablet scrolling, how ZK component supports it and an example at the end to express some tips of migrating from desktop to tablet. Read more.

ZK 6.5 Cardlayout Component Preview: Switch components like switching cards & works on both desktop & touch devices!

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:43:03 GMT

In the upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component ‘Cardlayout’ enabling end-users to switch components like switching cards. On tablet, this navigation operation is supported by simply swiping through components which is done automatically by ZK 6.5. Read more.

Use ZK + CDI + JPA and Jetty as the base and "default stack" to start building your web application

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:12:41 GMT

This article proposes a stack which is based on CDI (Weld), JPA (Hibernate) and ZK running on a simple web container (Jetty or Tomcat), which could be a good start for your ZK-based application. Read more.

ZK 6.5 Scrollview Component Preview: An Easy Way to Create Scroll-able page on Tablet Devices. See DEMO!

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:18:14 GMT

In upcoming ZK 6.5 where responsive design and one codebase for multiple devices is the key, we therefore introduce users to a new scrollview component, which is a component designed to easily construct a scroll-able web page on both tablet and mobile browsers. Read more.

Contributor Muthiah Senthil presents us a blog on implementing Hibernate one to many mapping bidirectional using ZK

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:21:47 GMT

In this post, Muthiah Senthil will show us how you can implement hibernate one to Many mapping (master & detail) bidirectional using ZK Components. Read more.

ZK 6.5's responsive design enables you to use the same set of components & have it run everywhere, desktop & tablet!

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:32:03 GMT

Within upcoming release of ZK 6.5, one of the hot topics is how ZK introduces responsive design. The aim of ZK framework team is to serve a variety of devices and screens with one set of components and have it run everywhere on your PC, desktops and smart-tablets. Read more.

Top Contributor Simon Massey talks about implementing event-driven GUI patterns with ZK on IBM developerWorks

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:03:39 GMT

Top contributor Simon Massey explores three event-driven graphical user interface (GUI) patterns using the ZK Java AJAX framework; specifically, "Passive View," "Supervising Controller" and "Presentation Model.".. Read more.

ZK 6.5 & Tablet UI Design: Design UI that take advantage of tablet-specific user interaction methods. See Demo!!

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:49:42 GMT

The soon-to-be-released ZK 6.5 introduces new features that enable developers to design user interfaces that take advantage of tablet-specific user interaction methods such as swiping and changing device orientations. Read more.

Contributor Pashkin Mikhail has written a small talk on how to implement a 15 puzzle game on a single ZUML page

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:52:21 GMT

Fifteen puzzle game implementation by Pashkin Mikhail on a single ZUML page. Read more.

Check out this small talk to know how to apply MVVM pattern in Java if you prefer to create application UI using pure Java

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:15:34 GMT

This small talk will demonstrate how to use MVVM pattern within a Richlet where you can create your application UI using Java. Read more.

ZK 6.5 & responsive design: Desktop and tablet applications from the same codebase!! View Demo!!

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:52:24 GMT

The upcoming ZK 6.5 focuses on incorporating responsive design principles to afford developers the ability to create web applications which have an excellent user experience on desktops and tablet devices without writing separate applications. Read more.

Contributor Fernando has created a new ZK component Accordion integrating liteAccordion, a jQuery plug-in.

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:30:54 GMT

Contributor Fernando introduce a new ZK component Accordion, a horizontal accordion component that is based on liteAccordion, a jQuery plug-in. Read more.

ZK introduces new component Dropupload to enable file uploading done easier & with more flexibility

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:40:02 GMT

n ZK 6.1 EE, we introduce a new component ‘Dropupload’ which leverages HTML 5 technology, allowing users to upload by dragging files into the component whilst retaining original operating habits... read more

Eu Soon has written a blog on how to develop a complex GUI using design patterns with little learning curve

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:39:52 GMT

The ability of ZK framework to separate data and logic from presentation make it possible to use design patterns to develop complex GUIs with little learning curve and without second thought. In this article I will show you... read more

A preview to a new API based ZK Add-on Component integrating powerful JavaScript Map library "Openlayers"

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:56:01 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to present to our users a preview version of a great, free, and API based ZK Add-on component – Openlayers, which integrates a powerful JavaScript Map library "Openlayers". Read more.

doubleSlash shares implementations of different technologies such as JavaScript & CSS in ZK (German)

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:08:41 GMT

In different web technologies such as Java, Javascript and CSS are used to control different properties. The pooling of individual technologies is often a challenge for the programmer... read more

Sven has written a series of blog posts on how to test ZK on Amazon EC2 without logging into AWS or using Firefox plugin

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:34:18 GMT

Certainly not a big deal to deploy a ZK web application to a Amazon EC2 instance, but I needed a simple application that allows my team to start/stop our EC2 instance that we use for testing and demo without logging into the AWS account or using the Firefox plugin.. Read more

Contributor M. Senthil regularly shares ZK examples in his blog covering from installation guide to more advanced topics. Users are welcome to check it out!

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:52:42 GMT

Muthiah Senthil regularly writes about ZK in his blog covering various topics from beginner's installation guide to more advanced topics including MVVM, MVC, databinding, integration, customization examples etc. Users are encouraged to visit his blog!

Deploying a ZK based Java EE application to Red Hat Open Shift Cloud. Contributed by Mohamed Sanaulla.

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:03:51 GMT

This blog shows you the steps of deploying a ZK powered Java EE aplication to Openshit, a Platform As A Service (Paas) offering from Red Hat joining the likes of Heroku, GAE, Jelastic and others. Read.

Migrating to ZK 6: understand the flexibility of MVVM to help decide where & how to use what approach. By Aashu Jaidka

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:13:26 GMT

In ZK5 there was only one clear approach to implement MVC by making a zul file as a View, apply a controller extending GenericForwardComposer (or may be a Spring Composer) to it. Where as in ZK6 version is equipped with new binding mechanism, i.e MVVM pattern. Programmers find it difficult to migrate from ZK5 to ZK6, this document will help you to understand different approaches available in ZK6 and where to use what approach.

Add flexibility & variation to your app by using a common data set for two or more components

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:53:58 GMT

In some use cases, developers may want two components to use the same data set but at the same time also want them to have two independent selection states in order to increase flexibility and variation of applications. Read to know how.

FrozenGrid Component: Tips on how to freeze both Columns & Rows for more flexibility & friendlier user experience

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:12:20 GMT

A tip on how you can use the frozenGrid component to acheive freezing effect on both Column and Rows for more convenient view and better user experience. Read.

Behind-the-scenes: A look at how ZK, ZK Spreadsheet are integrated into IBM Lotus Domino Designer XPages

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:25:31 GMT

Learn how ZK and ZK Spreadsheet are integrated into IBM Lotus Domino Designer XPages. This white paper explains the concepts and implementation of ZK, ZK Spreadsheet, and XPages.Read.

A First Look at MVVM in ZK 6: A blog looking at ZK 6's MVVM pattern in brief detail, from its anatomy to implementation

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:26:19 GMT

Under this ZK MVC pattern, the UI components in View need not to be bound to any Controller methods or data objects. The flexibility... Read more.

Using "shopping cart" example from ZK Essentials to guide users through performing a stress test using JMeter.

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:10:03 GMT

this small talk we will take a real application as an example to demonstrate in detail how you can actually execute a loading test using JMeter. Read.

Handle big data with ZK 6's biglistbox and Hibernate: saving data into a database and retrieve such data via Hibernate

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:20:22 GMT

This article will demonstrate how you can use the Biglistbox component to present huge data from the database with Hibernate.

Export ZK-powered pages to desired JasperReports format and layout, designed by iReport.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:54:56 GMT

This small talk will guide you through how to create a report with ZK using JasperReports and iReport. Please click here to read further.

A Sneak Peek to ZK's NEW Mobile Solution based on HTML 5, CSS 3 and integrating jQuery Mobile

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:25:22 GMT

ZK Touch is a brand new set of mobile components developed based on ZK 6 focusing on mobile web development designed for building mobile websites with ZK. Read more.

Read how to run ZK in Eclipse Equinox, an implementation of OSGi in existing servlet container. Contributed by Mirko Bernardoni

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:58:45 GMT

Run ZK in an embedded Equinox, an Eclipse project that provides a certified implementation of the OSGi R4.x core framework specification in an existing servlet container. Read the tutorial.

Preview of ZK Application Test Suite: Mimic Library - test composers without application server or browser

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:57:59 GMT

Mimic library enables the testing of a composer without an application server, and of course without a browser. Useres can mimic user interactions to applications such as clicking or typing to verify composer's (controller layer) data and logic. For more details, read here.

Use HTML5 History API in your ZK application to save application state on browser history & swtich between states

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:05:17 GMT

You can achieve browser history management using HTML5 History API in ZK to save application sate on browser history and switch in between different states of application especially in multi-step operation. Ashish tells you how!

Trouble handling big data? ZK's new "Big Listbox" solves this issue, loads&renders data so fast you have never seen before!

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:51:25 GMT

ZK's new major feature - Big Listbox is designed to handle unlimited data sets for enterprise level applications. It is able to handle big data with a single component provided with maximum performance optimization to cut out any lagging issues. Check this amazing new feature out NOW.

Server-side selector provides flexible DOM manipulation, ZK 6 embraces this under guise of Java annotations.

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:09:09 GMT

jQuery made DOM manipulation on the client side much more concise thanks to its CSS Selector mechanism, among other things. Now, the CSS selector technique has been extended to server side technology in ZK 6 under the guise of Java annotations. Read this article on theserverside.

CSS/jQuery selector inspired mechanism in ZK 6's MVC controller makes MVC implementation simper & more flexible

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:05:54 GMT

An interesting bit of ZK 6's MVC pattern is the CSS/jQuery Selector inspired mechanism in its Controller that makes this plumbing task simpler and more flexible...read more

Convert ZK jars into an OSGi bundle and develop an OSGi application for ease of management and version control!

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:52:52 GMT

This small talk by Vincent Jian guides you through how to convert ZK jars into an OSGi bundle and then use that bundle to develop an OSGi application! Read this small talk.

Updated small talk on how to integrate latest versions of ZK, Hibernate & Spring to create a project that uses MySQL

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:26:48 GMT

This small talk by Vincent Jian illustrates how you can use the latest ZK 5/6, Spring 3, and Hibernate 3.6 to create a simple project that loads data from MySQL database. Read here.

Be your own hero for your application! Secure your ZK apps with Java security framework Apache Shiro! By Ashish.

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:46:36 GMT

This small talk will guide you through how you can secure your ZK applications using Apache Shiro, a Java security framework. Credits to Ashish Dasnurkar! Read this small talk now.

Turn your design to reality! Customize the look & feel of combobox & listbox using CSS 3! Read this article by Vincent Jian!

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:24:18 GMT

Vincent Jian as written part 2 of his previous small talk guiding users though how they can customize the look and feel of buttons and window components using CSS 3.

Want to add image as a background or draw an arrow in an object within a browser? Read How to use HTML 5 Canvas4Z Part 2 by Jimmy Shiau!

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:22:56 GMT

Jimmy Shiau shows us how to leverage the Canvas4Z component to add an image as a background, draw an arrow, selecting and moving objects etc. To read this small talk, click here.

Deploy your ZK applications to the cloud using Heroku and OpenShift, Vincent Jian shows you how!

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:54:39 GMT

Vincent Jian walks us through developing ZK applications using the cloud based services Heroku and OpenShift.

Contributor Nushree Allie-Cader demonstrates how you can integrate JAX-WS with ZK.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:59:57 GMT

Nushree Allie-Cader of Effective Intelligence has written a small talk showing how you can easily integrate JAX-WS with ZK. For more information, please visit here.

Ben Bai introduces ZK 6.0 New Feature Chosenbox ? A beautiful and powerful multiple combobox

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:24:28 GMT

Developer Ben Bai introduces part 4 of ZK 6's new features highlight. This chosenbox add-on component is a beautiful and powerufl multiple combobox. To read the blog post, click here.

Hawk Chen has written a small talk on how to adopt Spring framework as an app infrastructure & work it with ZK6's MVVM

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:44:20 GMT

This small talk guides you through how you can adopt Spring framework as an application infrastructure and work it with ZK 6's new MVVM pattern to manage objects including ViewModel, validator etc.

Hawk Chen's small talk introduces a feature of ZK MVVM for 'form binding' by demonstrating an example application

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:36:18 GMT

This small talk introduces a feature of ZK MVVM for form binding. This feature will be demonstrated by rewriting an example application. To read this article, please click here.

Hawk Chen demonstrates the access to UI components inside a ViewModel in order to achieve further customization

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:20 GMT

This small talk demonstrates how users can access UI components inside a ViewModel to customize components to achieve more control of components like dynamically creating components, customize load on demand etc. To read this article, click here.

Dennis Chen has written a small on talk how you can execute a loading or a performance test on ZK using JMeter

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:03:32 GMT

Dennis Chen has written a small on talk how you can execute a loading or a performance test on a ZK application using JMeter. To visit the article, please click here.

Ashish's 3rd small talk on mongoDB shows how to develop a non- relational database driven ZK app with Spring Data

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:24:59 GMT

Ashish's third small talk on mongoDB guides users through how you can develop a non- relational database driven ZK app using Spring Data. For more information, please read here.

Ashish's 2nd small talk on mongoDB guides you through the development of a non- relational database driven ZK app using Morphia

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:57:10 GMT

Ashish's second small talk on mongoDB shows how users can develop a non-relational database driven ZK application using Morphia. For more detailed information, please read here.

Ashish has written a small talk on how to develop a non-relational database driven ZK app using mongoDB Java Driver

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:57:34 GMT

Ashish has written a small talk showing how developers can develop a non-relational database driven ZK application using mongoDB Java Driver. For more detailed information, please read here.

Contributor Erko Knoll has written a small talk showing how to use ZK in an OSGi environment with a plug-in based app ex.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:44:18 GMT

Contributor Erko Knoll has written a small talk guilding users how to use ZK in an OSGi environment with a comprehensive example that is a plug-in based application. To visit, please read here.

Hawk Chen has written a small talk on how to combine functions on different Grails Server Pages into one page

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:13:41 GMT

Extended from the previous small talk "Ajax GSP with ZK", developer Hawk Chen now guides users through how to combine all functions of different GSPs into one page. To read this article, click here.

Hawk Chen has written a small talk on how ZK can enhance the interactivity of Grails Server Page with Ajax

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:10:46 GMT

Developer Hawk Chen has written a small talk demonstrating how ZK can enhance the interactivity of Grails Server Page with Ajax by creating an example application. For more details, please read here.

Sven Hafner has written an example of how to achieve communication from client-side to a server-side ZUL page

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:20:46 GMT

Contributor Sven Hafner has written a ‘ZKzausend’ webapp as an exmaple to demonstrate how users can achieve communication from client-side to a server-side ZUL page

Contributor Deepak Agarwal has written a small talk on how users can customize scroll bars to match application themes

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:24:00 GMT

Contributor Deepak Agarwal has written a small talk guilding users through how you can customize scroll bars to match up to the themes of your application

ZK Community Interview with Joonas Javanainen - see how his company utilizes ZK for their projects

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:56:48 GMT

ZK Community Interview with Joonas Javanainen - check out how his company uses ZK for their projects and his suggestions on how you can start learning ZK. Read the interview.

Hawk Chen has written a small talk comparing the differences and usage of MVVM and MVC in ZK6

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:54:11 GMT

Developer Hawk Chen has written a small talk comparing the differences and usage of MVVM and MVC in ZK6 and how users can come about choosing which method to go with. To go to the small talk, click here.

Ian Tsai has written a small talk guiding users through the use of ZK Composite using Java annotation in ZK6

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:22:11 GMT

Developer Ian Tsai has written a small talk on ZK Composite - what it is, why & when we use it and how we design it. To visit the article, click here.

ZK Community Interview with contributor Stefano Bianchi - read to know more about him and how his team uses ZK

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:15:54 GMT

ZK Community Interview with contributor Stefano Bianchi - read to know more about Stefano and how he's team utilizes ZK in their project.

Vincent Jian has written a small talk to guide users through customizing the look & feel of a ZK component using CSS3

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:06:11 GMT

Developer Vincent Jian has written a small talk guiding users through how they can customize the look and feel of a ZK component using CSS3. To visit, please click here.

A blog for users upgrading from ZK 6 RC to RC2 outlining major changes of ZK Bind Syntax & Component selectors

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:56:13 GMT

A blog post for users who are upgrading from ZK 6 RC to ZK 6 RC2 outlining major changes of ZK Bind Syntax and Component selectors. For details, please visit here

Contributor Edwin Yu's gave an excellent presentation on how they evaluated & chose ZK at the ZK US User Group 2011

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:38:29 GMT

Contributor Edwin Yu of Navis TOC was the guest speaker at the ZK US User Group 2011. His presentation file is now available here.

BobZK provides us with "Python With ZK Part 3" overcoming security & performance issues

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:31:51 GMT

BobZK provides us with the third part of his excellent introduction to using Python with ZK overcoming security and performance issues. Please click here for his small talk.

The London, Mannheim and Munich user groups are drawing closer and the agendas have been announced, for more information please follow this link

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:04:18 GMT

The user groups are drawing closer and the agendas are now set, for more information please take a look at the blog posts. It isn't too late to register your place at our free user groups!

Dennis Chen has written a small talk guiding users through designing a CRUD page using MVVM pattern in ZK 6

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:04:00 GMT

Dennis Chen has written a small talk guiding users through the whole process of how a common CRUD page can be designed using MVVM pattern, including the creation, validation when editing and confirmation when deleting.

User Philmann Dark has contributed a blog post on why their team chose ZK as their right framework during evaluation

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:54:53 GMT

User Philmann Dark has written a blog on how heir team come about chosing ZK as their right framework during the evaluation process. For more information, please visit his blog.

Dennis Chen has written a small talk guiding users through a real case in writing a MVVM page with basic ZK Bind syntax of ZK6

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:42:13 GMT

Senior Engineer Dennis Chen has written a small talk guiding users through a real case to show how you can write your first MVVM page with some basic ZK Bind syntax.

Contributor Sven Hafner has written a tutorial on how users can embed d3.js in ZUL pages

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:32:24 GMT

Contributor Sven Hafner has written a tutorial guiding users in embedding d3.js in their ZUL pages. To visit his blog, click here.

Simon Pai introduces us to another ZK 6 feature, Datebox and Timebox input shortcut

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:46:55 GMT

Senior Engineer Simon Pai introduces us to another ZK 6's Datebox and Timebox input shortcut feature providing a way to speed up date and time input for regular users of a web application. For detailed information, please click here.

Henri Chen writes the first article of a series on ZK 6's new databinding and the MVVM functionality

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:55:04 GMT

Henri Chen introduces ZK Bind and its new MVVM functionality. This is the first in a series of articles which is designed to give a comprehensive introduction to ZK Bind and MVVM.

Henri Chen introduces ZK6's new databinding system overhauling the specifications & implementations.

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:41:32 GMT

ZK6 introduced its new databinding system overhauling the specifications and implementations. This new databinidng features is based upon user feedback and provides an easier to use and more flexible system.

Jumper Chen introduces another ZK 6 feature, keyboard navigation of the Menubar component

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:49:15 GMT

Senior developer Jumper Chen introduces us to ZK 6's Menubar navigation. The feature provides users with an enhanced experience by enabling advanced keyboard navigation throughout all of the menubar's children. For more information please click here.

Exclusive Interview with lead developer of ZKGrails - Dr. Chanwit Kaewkasi.

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:12:06 GMT

Exclusive Interview with lead developer of ZKGrails- Dr. Chanwit Kaewkasi. Chanwit reveals his motive behind the project and how ZK plays within ZKGrails.

Introducing the combobutton which is another new feature in ZK 6

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:35:08 GMT

This blog starts a series introducing more features found in ZK 6, for more information on the combobutton please click here.

ZK 6 developer preview: We are pleased to share a preview of ZK 6 which highlights its major new features.

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:43:55 GMT

This blog post introduces ZK 6 and it's major new features to the ZK audience, for more information please click here.

Case Study - BrightSide Workbench utilizes ZK for building its application framework, contacts and an ERP system

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:13:05 GMT

Case Study - BrightSide Workbench utilizes ZK for building its application framework, contacts and an ERP system

Contributor Leonardo Nigro has written a small talk on how ZKH5 Chart components can be used in ZK apps

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:11:39 GMT

Contributor Leonardo Nigro has written a small talk on how ZK Html5 Canvas Chart components can be used in ZK applications

Top contributor Simon Massey has updated his "Presentation Patterns In ZK, MVVM" slides that were presented at the ZK UK User group conference

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Simon Massey has released his "Presentation Patterns In ZK" slides which introduce the presentation patterns MVC, MVP and MVVM (MVB). For more information please click here.

Sam Chuang has created a blog discussing performance improvements on newly released ZK Spreadsheet 2.1.1

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sam Chuang has created a blog discussing performance improvements on newly released ZK Spreadsheet 2.1.1

Exclusive interview with IBM XPages Development Contest WINNER Dennis Chen! Check out his thoughts on the contest & more!

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Exclusive interview with IBM XPages Development Contest Winner Dennis Chen! Check out his thoughts on the contest & more!

ZK Fiddle integrated with ZK Forum to provide the first online live coding playground in Java for the ZK Community

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Ryan Wu introduces ZK Fiddle's integration with ZK Forum, providing the first online live coding playground in Java for the ZK Community.

Tim Clare & Sachin presents a real-world example integrating IBM Informix & ZK to create rich, powerful applications.

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Tim Clare & Sachin together presents a real-world example integrating IBM Informix & ZK to create rich, powerful applications.

Peter Kuo has created a blog discussing how users can adopt a new and cleverer way to activate the data binding manager

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Peter Kuo has created a blog discussing how users can adopt a new and cleverer way to activate the data binding manager

Tom Yeh has written a small talk introducing how users can now render list & tree models using templates in ZK5.1.

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Yeh has written a small talk introducing how users can now render list and tree models by using the template concept available in ZK5.1.

Developer Ian Tsai has created a blog on why common variable names should never be used in any ZUL page

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Developer Ian Tsai has created a blog on why common variable names should never be used in any ZUL page or dynamic web page technologies

River Software Technologies created a riverPortals solution fully based on ZK to serve better web portal deployments

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

River Software Technologies created a riverPortals solution fully based on ZK to serve better web portal deployments

Developer Vincent Jian created a blog introducing how users can embed different font types into JasperReport

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Developer Vincent Jian created a blog on how users can embed different font types into JasperReport

Developer Ben Bai created a blog discussing what Gmapsz3 Library is and the advantages it provides when using it

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Developer Ben Bai created a blog discussing what Gmapsz3 Library is and the advantages it provides when using it

Ashish discusses how users can keep certain components at a specific position by using the "absolutelayout" component

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Developer Ashish Dasnurkar discusses how users can keep certain components at a specific position by using the "absolutelayout" component

Matt Cheng has created a blog discussing a new ZK component "Soundmanager" that plays audio files using JavaScript

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Developer Matthew Cheng has created a blog discussing a new ZK component "Soundmanager" that plays audio files using JavaScript

Developer Peter Kuo has created a blog discussing the usage of "anchorlayout components" regarding sizing issues

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Developer Peter Kuo has created a blog discussing the usage of "anchorlayout components" regarding sizing issues

Tony Wang has made a demo showing features and implementations of the light-weighted tab component "swifttab"

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Developer Tony Wang made a demo on light-weighted tab component "swifttab" showing its features and implementations.

The blog "ZK developer environment" describes how to set up an environment using Maven, Eclipse and RunJettyRun

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Timothy Clare discusses how to setup a typical ZK development environment using Maven, Eclipse and RunJettyRun

Business Architect W.Jenny from IBM has published an article on decoupling business process and data with UI based on ZK

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Business Solution Architect W. Jenny from IBM has published an article on decoupling business process and business data in WebSphere Process Server with a sample application using ZK as the base for its user interface.

Lance Lu introduces the first blog of a series named ZK De-"myth"-tified. The first part focuses on ZK's ID Space.

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lance Lu introduces the first blog of a series named ZK De-"myth"-tified. Part 1 explores the myths surrounding ZK's ID Space, introducing its concepts and usage.

Simon Pai demonstrates how to integrate ZK with the JSR 303 specification on bean validation

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Pai introduces a step-by-step guide showing how to integrate JSR 303 with ZK. JSR 303 is a standard designed for working on property validation in Java beans.

First ever ZK Webinar on "ZK & JSP? is now available online for those who were unable to attend.

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The recorded video of the first ever ZK Webinar on the topic "ZK & JSP, when to use the technology together” is now available online for those who were unable to attend webinar here.

Senior ZK developer, Jumper Chen introduces a new feature for ZTL enabling unit testing using image differences

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Senior ZK developer, Jumper Chen, introduces a new feature for ZTL which enables developers to detect layout differences using unit tests. An essential read for ZK developers.

Click here to find out more about another approach to SEO for greater control in ZK applications

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK guru, Jumper Chen, introduces ZK 5.0.6 new features which allow greater control over SEO in ZK applications. For more information please click here.

Read here to find more about the best practices you can apply for sorting huge data using ZK

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Senior ZK developer, Jumper Chen, discusses best practices for sorting and paging with large datasets. For more information please click here.

Read here to find out how Sandalo Bessa of Sansys uses server push and the dial chart to provide an intuitive user experience.

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sandalo Bessa of Sansys has written a great smalltalk demonstrating how to use server push along with the dial chart to provide an intuitive user experience. For more information please click here.

Envisage ZK 6
Part I - "Annotated MVC"

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Pai, the prime mover behind ZK 6??s new annotation based MVC controller, shows us an alternative to the existing ZK MVC pattern and introduces the server side selector mechanism that makes all this possible. Peek into the future here.

ZK with EJB 3.1 running on Glassfish

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sven Hafner has published an excellent two part blog about running ZK with EJB 3.1 on Glassfish. For more information please visit the relevant posts, part 1 and part 2.

ZK at Client-side

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tony, a vibrant ZK developer, walks us through a simple demonstration of how events are processed at client-side in ZK 5. Read his blog post here.

Selectbox: A Light Weight Drop-down List

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper, ZK core developer, has made a light weight drop-down list component named ??Selectbox??. Read his blog post here and try out the code.

Physical Window Attributes

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Contributor Diego Bravo, software architect, shares with us his "physical window scope" pattern which enables developers to differentiate between physical browser windows. For more information please click here.

ZK Uploader for sendspace

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Diogo Duarte details his exciting ZK application which enables users to upload their files to sendspace, a file sharing service. For more information please click here.

Introducing the ZK Composite

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen introduces us to the ZK composite which is a concept in which we design a customized component based on a template zul file similar to a Macro component. However, unlike a Macro component, developers can include other child components within a ZK composite. For more information please click here.

Google Geo Kit with ZK Gmaps

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jeff Liu discusses Googles Geo Kit and integrates it with ZK Gmaps. For more information please click here.

ZK Spreadsheet as a native JSF component

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ashish Dasnurkar demonstrates how with the upcoming ZK 5.0.5 release ZK Spreadsheet can be embedded as a native JSF component in JSF 2.0 applications. For more information on this practice please click here.

Security using AspectJ

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ozkey explains how he uses AspectJ for security in his ZK powered photo album. For more information please click here.

Creating an application message system using ZK

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Stephan Gerth discusses the creation of an application messaging system using ZK. For more information and the source code please click here.

ZK 5.0.4s memory improvements

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In addition to other features, ZK 5.0.4 will bring with it a number of memory handling improvements. Sam Chuang explored and documented the benefits of upgrading to ZK 5.0.4. For more information please click here.

Two new layout components in ZK 5.0.4, Hlayout and Vlayout

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the introduction of two new components, hlayout and vlayout which enable you to layout your page in an easier and more controllable manner. For more information please click here.

Improved AnnotateDataBinder Initializer

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Herbert Daume of DIMOCO GmbH walks us through an improvement he has made to the AnnotateDataBinder Initializer. For more information please click here!

A Totally Different Look per User without Modifying your Application

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Yeh talks us through how to create a totally different look for a widget depending on external factors such as a different user. For information please click here.

Event Queue: Communication among inline frames without Server Push

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Yeh introduces the new concept called group along with a new event queue named the group-scoped event queue. This enables easy communication between multiple iframes in the same browser window. For more details please click here.

Modal search dialogs: AdvancedSearchListBox skeleton

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Stephan Gerth blogs about his advanced modal search box creation. For more information and the source code of the component please click here.

Modal search dialogs: AdvancedSearchListBox skeleton

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Stephan Gerth blogs about his advanced modal search box creation. For more information and the source code of the component please click here.

Modal search dialogs: SimpleSearchListBox skeleton

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Stephan Gerth blogs about his modal search box creation. For more information and the source code of the component please click here.

Customized Server Messages with ZK

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Herbert Daume of DIMOCO GmbH, Austria, demonstrates how to customize the server message on long running events using ZKs Server Push technology. For more information please click here.

How To Use Canvas4Z

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Pai introduces us to Canvas4Z, a component which enables user to draw various objects within a browser using Java2D. For more information please click here.

ZK Selenium testing without UUIDs

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen demonstrates one of the upcoming tools for ZK testing. This tool enables us to test ZK applications using Selenium without the need for a UUID generator. To view the blog post please click here.

A ZK Component Extractor

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Riccardo Casatta from Synaptica srl shares with us a utility he built for extracting ZK components from a ZUL file which saves MVC pattern practioners the effort of making the declarations manually in a controller class.
Read more.

Python with ZK: Part 2

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

BobZK provides us with the second part of his excellent introduction to using Python with ZK! For more information please click here.

Tips for Upgrading to ZK 5

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Edwin Yu, Senior Software Engineer at Zebra Enterprise Solutions, shares with us his valuable experience upgrading from ZK 3.6 to ZK 5.0. Please see his notes here.

Exploring ZK 5s optional client side control

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK is renowned for its server centric approach. With ZK 5 this tradition continues while also providing optional client-side control. Peter Kuo walks us through how to take advantage of the this control. For more information please click here.

Automatic Version Numbering in ZK with Hudson

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sven Hafner has released a new blog post detailing the process of adding a version reading feature to ZK 5! Check it out here.

ZK is cloud ready with Terracotta

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Peter Kuo demonstrates how ZK can be run on the open source clustering software, Terracotta, which is scalable to large virtualized environments and clouds. Please read his article here.

Internationalize ZK Web Applications

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sven Hafner walks us through a detailed step by step tutorial (part 1, part 2) on how to make a ZK application multilingual in his JavaDude Weblog.

Create ZK components dynamically with ZKBuilder

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Felipe Cypriano explains the benefits of using ZKBuilder to dynamically create ZK components in ZKGrails. Read his blog post here.

Ajax login page powered by ZK, JAAS, and JBoss

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ondrej Medek demonstrates how to build a true Ajax login form without page redirection using ZK, JAAS, and JBoss. Please click here to follow his Small Talk.

A Spanish introduction to ZK

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sergio Cerro has written an introduction to ZK for our Spanish users! For more information please click here (Spanish).

Handling events on ZK macro components

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Felipe Cypriano has written a blog post detailing how to handle events on Zk macro components. For more information please click here.

Handling ZK Events using CDI event notification model

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A blog post by Ashish Dasnurkar introduces us to ZK event handling using JavaEE 6s Contexts and Dependency Injection??s (CDI) event notification model. Be sure to take a look at this for a peek into ZK??s coming integration with CDI.

Python with ZK

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

BobZK provides us with an excellent introduction to using Python with ZK! For more information please click here.

Customize Your ZK Pages Per Spring Security Authority Roles

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Henri Chen continues his ZK Spring series by demonstrating how to customize ZK pages using Spring Security authority roles. For more information please click here.

Making ZK Functional Tests With Sahi

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Joseph Neuhaus describes how to create ZK functional tests using the browser-based testing framework Sahi. For more information please click here.

Deploying a ZK application on Amazon EC2 using CloudFoundry

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of our star contributors, Sotohiro, has succeeded in deloying the ZK Demo on Amazon EC2 using CloudFoundry. In this Small Talk he guides you through the process one step at a time!

ZK 5.0 and FlashCharts

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Guy Bowerman walks us through an example of the FlashChart component in ZK 5. For more information please take a look at IBMs developerWorks

New ZK 5 captcha component released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jimmy Shiau introduces to us a free, LGPL licensed, captcha component for ZK 5. The component is upgrade of an earlier implementation for ZK 3 by Dennis Chen. More information, Download here

ZK 5 Box layouts

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jumin Rubin, a Swiss contributor, takes time out to introduce ZK 5??s new box layout components to the community. For more information please click here.

A ZK Performance Monitor

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sam Chuang implements a performance monitor and illustrates how it aids ZK developers in determining an Ajax applications performance and identifying bottlenecks. Click here for the source code.

Embedding ZK in GSP

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Felipe Cypriano discusses how you could use just two simple tags to include any zul page in your GSP with the ZKGrails 0.7.6 plugin. Check it out here.

Integrating Crystal Reports with ZK!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ramkumar walks us through the process of integrating ZK with Crystal Reports! For more information click here.

Smart grid

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Kirill Zhukov introduces us to his new Smart grid component! For more information click here.

Building content management systems with Jease

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Maik Jablonski introduces us to the world of Jease - a Java-based Content-Management-Framework built on top of ZK! For more information click here.

JavaHelp 2 and ZK 5

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Nelson Cazonda walks us through building a professional help system using ZK 5 and JavaHelp! For more information click here.

Securing your application using ZK Grails

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Felipe Cypriano discusses the tweaking of ZK to make the event processing call Groovy??s invokeMethod in order to better secure his ZK Grails application. Check it out here!

ZK 5 Component development - the Imagepicker

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this Small Talk, Jimmy Shiau introduces us to ZK 5 component development by creating an image picking component to provide users with an easy way to select images. Check it out here!

Direct RIA: The future of RIA - in German!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

One of ZKs top contributors, Stephan Gerth has translated Robbie Chengs CodeGuru article on the future of RIA into German! Have a look here! (German)

Integration of ZK and Applets for use with Swing and AWT

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Pablo Hernan Gimenez and Juan Pablo Francisconi discuss the integration of ZK and JApplets in order to build web applications with AWT and Swing. For more information click here.

Open Flash Charts with ZK

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Fernando Selvatici introduces his progress on creating an Open Flash Chart component for ZK. Click here to find out more

ZK 5: Control your layout more effectively!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Henri Chen introduces us to two new ZK 5 properties which improve your layout control! Click here to find out more

I18n ZK framework ZUL pages using GNU Gettext

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On his blog, Diego Pino discusses an optional alternative to internationalizing ZUL pages. In his example he uses the GNU gettext utilities and Gettext Commons! To find out more click here!

Spanish translations available!

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

One of ZKs contributors, Sergio Cerro Pascual has kindly translated our Quick Start Guide and Real-world tutorial into Spanish!

ZK and JavATE

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Andrea Mattioli introduces us to JavATE which follows the principles of Domain Driven Design to help you combine a framework stack in a consistent manner. To find out more click here!

ZK 5: Frozen Column, In-place Editing and Rowspan

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen introduces us to new and powerful ZK 5 features frozen columns, in-place editing and row spans which enhance the user experience and quicken development. To find out more click here!

Karn: Declarative Data-binding for ZK

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

One of the creators of the ZK addon Karn, Abishek Patnia, talks us through using Karns declarative data-binding for ZK. To find out more click here!

Building a complex Tree using Grids

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen walks us through the creation of a complex tree table, suitable for drilling down into large amounts of data using ZKs Grid component. To find out more click here!

Form Based Login with JAAS on JBoss and ZK

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ondrej Medek talks us through using ZK to implement a form based login for JAAS on JBoss 5.x! Check it out here!

Using expression languages within ZK

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In his blog post Marcos discusses the use of expression languages within ZK, you can read the post in both English and Portuguese.

ZK on OSGi - Dynamic & Asynchronous Richlets

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mathieu Civel walks us through how to integrate ZK together with OSGi framework. Get more information here!

ZK 5.0: Chat with Event Queue

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Yeh introduces us to ZK 5.0s new event queue, an event-based mechanism enabling developers to take advantage of ZK server-push technology with minimal effort! Check it out here!

ZK 5.0: New File Upload

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen introduces us to ZK 5.0s new file upload component! Check it out here!

ZK 5.0 and Client-centric Approach

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng walks us through ZK 5 and Client-centric approach! Check it out here!

Handling huge amounts of data using ZK

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Timothy Clare walks us through the handling of huge amounts of data using ZK. Check it out here!

ZK 5.0 and Client+Server Fusion

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng talks us through ZK 5s new Client+Server Fusion architecture! Check it out here!

ZK 5.0 and jQuery - stocks

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Timothy Clare walks you through using jQuery with ZK 5 to create client side effects using a stocks and shares system. Check it out here!

ZK 5.0 and jQuery - highlighting a form

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Timothy Clare walks you through using jQuery with ZK 5 to highlight a form. Check it out here!

ZK now speaks PHP

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Edwin Estevez Parra guides us through the process of using PHP with the ZK Framework!
Check it out here!

Using Garuda as your Portal Layout

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ajeet Singh discusses how to use his Garuda extension package to produce an iGoogle style portal layout! Check it out here!

Integrating Birt with ZK

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Danilo de Sousa wrote a smalltalk about how to integrate BIRT reporting with ZK. Lets check it out!

Generate your new color theme with ZKThemer!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZKThemer is an automatic color theme generator, provided by Jose. It can help to generate a new color theme based on ZK. Take a quick tour and apply it into your application now!

Integrate ZK Calendar with a database

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this Small Talk, Timothy Clare guides you through integrating ZK Calendar with a database backend. Check it out!

ZappWeb a Secured Web Framework

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this smalltalk, Ramzi Maalej aims to provide you with a basic framework which combines the most powerful web frameworks to start building even securer web applications. Check it out!

Performance Monitoring of ZK Applicaiton

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jiri Bubnik, Project Manager of Datalite will introduce a library for monitoring session runtime information for your ZK application, which is based upon the ZK PerformanceMeter listener but also provides integration with other frameworks.

Paging Sorting with a Filter Object

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Stephan Gerth introduces you how to implement load-on-demand and sorting without sql statement at the same time. Using Hibernate-Generic-DAO, the integration between ZK and Database becomes much easier!

New Features of ZK Spreadsheet 1.0.0 RC2

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, kinda lu shows the new feature in latest ZK Spreadsheet release by new spreadsheet application.

New Feature of ZK 3.6.1

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng guides you through the most exciting new additions to ZK 3.6.1

DB Form Builder Inside Out

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Charles Pao introduces the DB Form Builder feature of ZK Studio 0.9.3.

A Preview Of ZK Spreadsheet 1.0

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Kinda Lu will demonstrate various functions in zss 1.0.

ZK Unit Testing Project - zunit

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Ryan Wu will introduce how to use zunit to create test project. And how to use components ID as UUID while testing.

ZK Charts

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Did you know that ZK offers 29 chart types out of the box ? This article shows that how to use ZK Charts

Simple Database Access From ZK

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article shows that how you can gain access to a database easily direct from the ZK source file.

New Feature of ZK 3.6.0

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng guides you through the most exciting new additions to ZK 3.6.0

How to Test ZK Application with Selenium

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Ryan Wu shows you how to test ZK application with Selenium Test Framework and ZK id generator.

ZK Alfresco Talk

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This Smalltalk shows how its possible to delegate ZK page definitions to a remote system and in particular to an Alfresco DM (Document Manager) Server who is able to generate the zul pages dynamically and deliver them to our ZK webapp for local server processing.

Build CRUD Application with ZK Studio in 6 Steps

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, Peter Kuo shows you how to create CRUD application with ZK Studio Wizard.

Behind-the-Scene of New ZK Demo

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article shows the workings of the New ZK Demo and which ZK features we have used.

Sorting Multiple Fields Automatically in Listbox

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sorting multiple fields in listbox without comparator is not dream! Lets check it out how to make it come true! More.