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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.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 08:31:07 GMT

Thanks to you, we have reached 10 million visits on www.zkoss.org! Like our Facebook page and share this post for a chance to WIN a ZK-customized TUMBLER!

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.

The testing tool of ZK, ZATS Mimic 1.1 now released and available to support more operations & advanced features!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:08:07 GMT

ZATS Mimic 1.1 is an upgrading release to support more operations such as upload, download, custom operation and many advanced features including cookie handling, passing arguments to included ZUL, and more.

Visual Editor 0.6.0 add-on for ZK Studio 2.0 is now released & available for download!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:04:30 GMT

Due to the large demand from the community, we have released a visual editor add-on for ZK Studio 2.0. Download now!

[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.

ZK EE Premium features & services

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:43:36 GMT

All NEW ZK Studio 2.0!

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:17:17 GMT

All New ZK Studio 2.0 Released! With content assistance for MVC & MVVM and improved performance! TRY NOW!

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:14:37 GMT

In ZK Studio 2.0, the ZUL editor introduces an exceptionally powerful feature providing content assistance for both the MVC and MVVM patterns. Read more.

FREE Online Training Offer for LIMITED TIME!

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:21:12 GMT

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:08:43 GMT

Due to the large demand from our community, we have decided to open up additional FREE training sessions on April 09 & April 11!

New ZK Essentials

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:51:02 GMT

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!

We are proud to announce due to the high demand from our community we have brought back the ability to hold a discussion on the forum

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:48:48 GMT

We are proud to announce due to the high demand from our community we have brought back the ability to hold a discussion on the forum! For more information please refer to the blog post.

ZK 6.5.2 RELEASED! 18 new features and 80+ bug fixes including improved MVVM, improved theme customization & Portlet 2.0 support!

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:51:03 GMT

ZK 6.5.2 consists of 15 new features with 80+ bug fixes including Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286) support, an easier way to load custom themes, and more. Read.

[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.

We are releasing ZK 6.5.2 soon !!! Please try out CE version here & give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:41:52 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.5.2 will be released soon, please try out community edition here & provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 6.5.2 will be released soon! Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:37:35 GMT

Community invitation to all - ZK 6.5.2 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

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

Contributor M.Senthil developed an app with ZK, Spring, Hibernate & MySQL containing examples of ZK!

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:22:23 GMT

Contributor Senthil Muthiah has developed an app using ZK, Spring,Hibernate and Mysql containing examples in ZK which he's created while learning ZK.

[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.

All free online training courses are now FULL. Confirmation email will be sent out within 2 business days to those who have successfully signed up.

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:08:23 GMT

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FREE Online Training offer for LIMITED TIME! Sign up now to secure your place and get started on ZK!

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:15:11 GMT

we are now offering FREE online training courses for a LIMITED TIME to help users to kick off their year with ZK more efficiently and effectively. Sign up now!

PMQ shares with the community their project's selected screen shots!

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:57:10 GMT

PMQ is an IT company located in Czech Republic specialising in educational softwares and apps for web and mobiles, and has been working with ZK since 2011.

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.

ZK JSP 2.3 has been released to support JSP 2.1+ with minor bug fixes

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:52:13 GMT

ZK JSP 2.3 has been released as a maintenance release to support JSP 2.1+ along with a few bug fixes

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.

ZK Calendar 2.1.2 released! Focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancement and upgrades to support ZK 6.5 series.

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:17:08 GMT

ZK Calendar 2.1.2 has been released which is a maintenance release focusing on fixing bugs, upgrading to support ZK 6.5 series. Download.

ZK CKEditor 4.0.1.0 has been released supporting new features in CKEditor 4.0.1 except for inline editing

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:48:23 GMT

Please be informed that ZK CKEditor has been upgraded to version 4.0.1.0, which should support the new features in CKEditor 4.0.1, except for inline editing. Click to download.

ZK NEW FORUM ONLINE! More convenience, user interactions & more FUN!! Engage now & claim your karma!

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:37:22 GMT

We have introced a new Q&A type forum to improve user's experience, to more effectively enage with the community; easier to find answers, help others and of course more fun!

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.

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.5.1.1, an updated IDE for ZK 6.5.1.1.Now available for download!

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:13:00 GMT

This release is a plugin for NetBeans to support EE and CE version of newest ZK 6.51.1.

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.

Case Study: See insight on how Thinking Networks uses ZK to build a suite for intricate & challenging planning tasks

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:48:42 GMT

Thinking Nerworks leverages ZK to build TN Plannning, a suite for intricate and challenging planning tasks with rich configuration options & extensibility to adapt to the most specialized needs & requirements in areas of planning, simulation, cost allocation, and legal consolidation.

Serverside Pagination with ZK, Spring Data MongoDB and Google Maps

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:15:16 GMT

"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.

Merry X'mas & Happy New Year!

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:15:48 GMT

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.

ZK 6.5.1 Released! Focuses on fixing bugs & introducing new features relating to MVVM, HTML 5 API and others.

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:07:39 GMT

ZK 6.5.1 concentrates on fixing bugs and introducing a few new features including a default command for MVVM, page visibility with HTML 5 API and others.

Winners of ZK Prize Draw 2012 have been announced!! Click to check if you're on the list and claim your ZK-shirt!!

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:47:38 GMT

7 Winners of ZK Prize Draw 2012 have been selected! Check our facebook fan page to see if you're on the list and claim your ZK-shirt!!

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

We are releasing ZK 6.5.1 soon !!! Please try out CE version here & give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:08:59 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.5.1 will be released soon, please try out community edition here & provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 6.5.1 will be released soon! Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:06:35 GMT

Community invitation to all - ZK 6.5.1 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

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 Pivottable 2.0.1 has been released! This is a minor release with a few bug fixes

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:18:11 GMT

ZK Pivottable 2.0.1 is now released and available for download. Version 2.0.1 is a minor release with a few bug fixes. Release note.

ZK turns 7!

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:24:22 GMT

Happy Birthday!!! ZK Turns 7!!! Celebrate with us & WIN a ZK-shirt!!!

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:00:05 GMT

As of this month, ZK Framework turns 7! Say Happy Birthday to ZK and WIN a ZK-shirt!

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

We are pleased to announce an update to ZK Studio 1.0.2 to fully support the eclipse 4.2. Get it now!

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:20:15 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of ZK Studio 1.0.2 which has been updated to support eclipse 4.2.

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"

ZK Spreadsheet 2.5 is a maintenance release now available for download to support ZK 6.5 along with bug fixes

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:12:28 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.5 has been released as a maintenance release to support ZK 6.5 along with some bug fixes.

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 Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.5.0, an updated IDE for ZK 6.5.0. Now available for download!

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:34:39 GMT

This release is a plugin for NetBeans to support EE and CE version of newest ZK 6.5.0.

ZK Spring, ZK JSP, ZK Gmaps & ZK CKEditor released for maintenance purposes and/or ZK 6.5 & tablet support

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:46:55 GMT

ZK team has realsed ZK Spring, ZK JSP, ZK Gmaps & ZK CKEditor mainly to support ZK 6.5 and bug fixes

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.

The new ZK 6.5!

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:09:07 GMT

ZK 6.5 OUT NOW! Incorporating responsive design and touch device user experience with just one component set!

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:34:55 GMT

The new ZK 6.5 is a whole new release with new dimensions taking developers to achieve real device transparency in one codebase and component set, exploring the area of combined desktop & tablet UI and touch experiences in the simplest and most efficient way. Release note.

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.

Top Contributor Chanwit has released ZK Grails 2.0! Supporting MVVM, the new instantly change feature "Live" & more!

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:17:19 GMT

ZK Grails 2.0 has been released by contributor Chanwit supporting MVVM pattern, instantly change feature "Live", jQuery-style API directly in Groovy syntax, built-in JavaScript declaration & more! Visit Page.

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.

We are releasing ZK 6.5 soon !!! Please try out CE version here & give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:24:45 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.5 will be released soon, please try out community edition here & provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 6.5 will be officially released soon!!! Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:11:30 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.5 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

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 Releases Online Themer to help you create different themes & colours for your ZK application in just a few clicks! TRY!

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:31:56 GMT

ZK Online Themer is an online ZK theme generator that helps you to do all that and you can generate different themes and colours for your ZK application with just a few clicks! Read more.

ZK Online Themer!

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:14:48 GMT

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.

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.0.2, an updated IDE for ZK 6.0.2. Now available for download.

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:21:58 GMT

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.0.2 EE and CE as an upgrade version to ZK 6.0.2. Download here.

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.

ZK 6.0.2 Released! Supporting development in OSGi environment with few changes in ZK Bind specifications

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:59:04 GMT

ZK now released with version 6.0.2 to support development in OSGi environment with few changes in ZK Bind specifications along with some bug fixes.See release note

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.

We are releasing ZK 6.0.2 soon !!! Please try out CE version here & give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:37:51 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.0.2 will be released soon, please try out community edition here & provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 6.0.2 will be officially released soon!!! Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:21:16 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.0.2 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

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.

ZK Pivottable 2.0 Officially Released! With 400% performance optimization and increased Excel compatibility!

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:05:14 GMT

ZK Pivottable 2.0 is now officially released with major performance optimization and increased Excel compatibility on functions and UI operations. Check out release note or download now!

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!

Case Study - Dingen Computers shares their experiences in building automated administrative processes with ZK

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:28:34 GMT

Dingen leverages ZK to build SAyGes, a system used to automate administrative processes with the facilities that propose the development of desktop applications. Read more.

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.

Case Study - Effective Intelligence shares their experience in building information management services with ZK

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:39:54 GMT

Effective Intelligence leveraged the power of ZK to deliver Basil - bringing large scale standardization to companies & facilitate better project management processes, reporting, resource management & client invoicing. Read more.

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.

ZATS Mimic 1.0 RELEASED - create test cases to verify functionality & features of your app without a server or browser NOW

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:24:23 GMT

ZATS Mimic 1.0 - a high performance new testing suite for creating test cases to verifyfunctionality & features of your ZK app without a server or browser is NOW RELEASED! TRY.

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.

ZK Team announces the release of ZK JSP 2.1 featuring Biglistbox & Chosenbox component tags to support ZK 6.0.1

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:24:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK JSP 2.1 adding new features Biglistbox and Chosenbox component tags. Download.

doubleSlash updates the community of their 2nd main product "Marketing Planner" powered by ZK

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:33:46 GMT

doubleSlash shares with the community their second main product that utilizes ZK as the base - a web based tool called "Marketing Planner" for creating and monitoring marketing and distribution processes. Read more.

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.

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.0.1 EE and CE, an IDE for ZK, now available for download!

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:20:01 GMT

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 6.0.1 EE and CE as an upgrade version to ZK 6.0.1. Please download here.

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.

ZK 6.0.1 RELEASED! Bringing whole new features & components including biglistbox, fusionchart integration, databinding improvements & more!

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:42:23 GMT

ZK 6.0.1 brings with it a whole host of new features and new components such as fusionchart integration and the biglistbox designed to display trillions worth of data at an amazing speed. ZK 6.0.1 also comes with numerous databinding improvements including reference binding, converter for children binding, form bean validator and more. Check out the release note.

ZATS Mimic 1.0RC officially RELEASED! Test your composer WITHOUT application server or browser. Check out how!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:49:41 GMT

Use ZATS Mimic to to write a regular unit test case and use Mimic's utility class to interact components on ZUL and then, run the test case.

ZK 6.0.1 will be released SOON! Please download to try it out and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:11:38 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.0.1 will be released soon, please download ASAP here and give us your valuable feedback!

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 5.0.11 EE and CE, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.11 now available for download.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:33:03 GMT

Contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 5.0.11 EE and CE as an upgrade version to ZK 5.0.11. Download here.

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.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.3 Released! Supporting mechanism to cache rendered cells & sheets, tool bar etc.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:30:06 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.3 brings with it a host of new features including toolbar, sheetbar, context menu and render/cache mechanism. Please check out the release note.

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.

See how STE Energy built a desktop-like app faster than developing a real desktop application leveraging ZK power!

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:56:45 GMT

STE Energy has kindly shared their case study with the community on how they used ZK to develop an intranet ERP system with less work than building a real desktop application. Read this case study.

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!

ZK 5.0.11 Released! Maintenance release with 50+ bug fixes, further stabilizing ZK 5.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:36:36 GMT

ZK 5.0.11 is a maintenance release with 50+ bug fixes, further enhancing the stability of ZK. Check out the releasenote.

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

ZK Framework as Jolt Awards Finalist 2012 for third-party libraries category!!

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:24:10 GMT

ZK is proud to to have been listed as one of the finalists for Jolt Awards 2012 third-party libraries category. we will take this opportunity to further improve, innovate to serve the community better than ever.

Community Invite: ZK 5.0.11 will be released soon! Please try out CE version and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:29:51 GMT

ZK 5.0.11 will be released soon! The Team invites all users to try out CE version here ASAP and provide us with your valuable feedback!

Community Invite: ZK 5.0.11 will be released soon! Please try out PE & EE versions & give us your valuable feedback

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:26:27 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 5.0.11 will be released soon, please try out PE & EE versions ASAP here and give us your valuable feedback!

Run-jetty-run 1.3.3 has been released by Tony Wang, upgrading to support latest versions of Jetty 7 and 8 with few bug fixes

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:15:24 GMT

Developer Tony Wang has released the latest version of Run-jetty-run, a plug-in which enables you to run web applications in Eclipse using its embedded Jetty distribution. This release fucoses on the upgrading of Jetty versions along with few bug fixes. For more information, please read the releasenote or getting started.

ZK Studio 1.0.2 released supporting Eclipse 3.7 and mark occurrence for ZUL annotation in ZUL Editor! Try NOW!

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:47:44 GMT

ZK Studio 1.0.2 is now released supporting Eclipse 3.7 and mark occurrence for ZUL annotation in ZUL Editor; any items in the zul which is same as the selected item will be highlighted! Go to release note, or download.

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.

ZK Pivottable 1.1 Released! Export your computed results to Microsoft Excel Now!

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:30:11 GMT

ZK Pivottable 1.1 released! Users are now able to export their computed results in .csv and .xls formats to MS Excel. Read the releasenote or download now!

ZK Gmapsz 3.0.0 now officially released supporting ZK 6 & various new features. Embed Google Map in your app now!

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:23:26 GMT

ZK Gmapsz 3.0.0 is officially released now fully compatible with ZK 6 along with introduction to various new features such as Using GMap in HTTPS application, hflex, vflex etc. To download, please click here.

ZK Spring 3.1 Released to support ZK 6 along with few bug fixes. Please also note that "GenericSpringComposer" has been deprecated for better usage

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:36:52 GMT

ZK Spring 3.1 is a maintenance release mainly focusing on fixing bugs and upgrading compatibility to fully support ZK 6. GenericSpringComposer has been deprecated as it has been identified to cause potential problems under various application servers. For more details, please visit associated blog or download it right away!

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.

ZK Calendar 2.1.1 Released focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancement and upgrades to support ZK 6.

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:12:52 GMT

ZK Calendar 2.1.1 has been released which is a maintenance release focusing on fixing bugs, upgrading to support ZK 6 and updating new feature. To download, please click here.

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.

Deliver ZK Hibernate/JPA apps in half the time! Use ABL 2.0 for complex logic - each annotation represents 100 lines of code

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:24:20 GMT

Automated Business Logic announces the release of ABL 2.0 providing database recompute and dynamirc logic which enables to reload changed logic classes without restarting your JVM/Server. For more information and to download, please visit here.

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.

ZK JSP 2.0 Released now fully supporting ZK 6 & ZK Bind also featuring new some component tags!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:56:08 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to announce the release of ZK JSP 2.0 to fully support ZK 6 and ZK Bind along with some new component tags such as combobutton, absolutelayout, absolutechildren etc. To download, please click here.

ZK CKEditor 3.6.0.1 Now Released with an upgrade to fully support ZK 6 & ZK Bind

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:42:45 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to announce the release of ZK CKEditor 3.6.0.1 to support ZK 6 and ZK Bind. To download, please click here.

Happy Valentine's Day! ZK 6.0 Officially Released! Hot new features including ZK Bind, MVVM design pattern, Generics, jQuery & CSS 3 style server-side selector & more!

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:44:34 GMT

ZK 6.0 is now officially released with brand new features such as the new databinding system ‘ZK Bind’ which supports the MVVM development pattern, generic support, jQuery & CSS 3 style server-side selector and more! Check out the latest release note or download it right away!

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.

Top contributor Chanwit has announced a milestone release for ZK Grails 2.0.0.M2 shipped with a post-RC2 version of ZK6

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:32:48 GMT

Chanwit has announced that ZK Grails 2.0.0.M2 is now available for download. This version ships with a post-RC2 version of ZK6.

ZK 6.0 will be officially released soon!!! Please try out the PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:42:27 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.0 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 6.0 will be officially released soon!!! Please try out the CE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:38:31 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 6.0 will be released soon, please try out the CE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

Case study - see how SEB bank uses ZK for developing their teller front application to serve customers more efficiently

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:17:43 GMT

SEB, the second largest commercial bank in Estonia, utilises ZK for
developing and modernising their teller front application in order to
server customers more effectively. To read the case study, click here.

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.

Case Study - Pennant Technologies shares their case on how they came about choosing ZK as their project base

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:14:24 GMT

Pennant Technologies shares their experience with the ZK Community on how they came about choosing ZK as the base for their future applications and on what they do. To read this case study, 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.

20th Century Fox and others are recruiting for engineers experienced with ZK. Details available on ZK Pro on LinkedIn.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:43:24 GMT

20th Century Fox Film Corporation is now recruiting for engineers experienced with ZK. More information on this job and others available on ZK Pro on LinkedIn.com.

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.

Simon Massey Presentation Patterns in ZK

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:16:05 GMT

Maik Jablonski has released Jease 2.6, the ZK based CMS with the ease of Java containing the latest ZK 5.0.10

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:09:03 GMT

Jease 2.6 has been released containing the latest ZK 5.0.10 with hot new features including automatic HTML to PDF conversion for content objects and more. Check it out here.

ZATS

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:08:12 GMT

ZK 6 AVAILABLE NOW!

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:28:59 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.2 Released! Brings in collaboration editing, new chart types, chart & picture operations and more!

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:03:07 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.2 release brings in a host of new features including the Google doc like collaboration editing feature, validation functionality, new chart types, and more! Please check out the release note, or download it now!

ZK 5.0.10 Released! Maintenance release with 60+ bug fixes, further enhancing the stability of ZK.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:17:40 GMT

ZK 5.0.10 is a maintenance release with 60+ bug fixes, further enhancing the stability of ZK. To visit the release note, please click 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.

ZK 5.0.10 will be released soon, Please try out the PE & EE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:26:22 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 5.0.10 will be released soon, please try out the PE & EE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

ZK 5.0.10 will be released soon, Please try out the CE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:22:38 GMT

Community invitation to all users - ZK 5.0.10 will be released soon, please try out the CE version here and provide us with your valuable feedback!

Simon Massey's excellent presentation on "ZK MVVM, Spring & JPA on Two PaaS Clouds" at User Group 2011 now online

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:50:04 GMT

Simon Massey presented us an excellent presentation on "ZK MVVM, Spring & JPA on Two PaaS Clouds at ZK Munich User Group 2011. His ppt slides are now available online! To check it out, click here

Merry X'mas & Happy New Year!

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:27:19 GMT

Edwin Yu Navis Presentation

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:58:17 GMT

ZK featured in Java Tech Journal

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:46:40 GMT

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

ZK 6 RC2 is now released! with new features and few changes to suit and serve the needs of the community better

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:45:01 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to annouce the release of ZK 6 RC2 with new features and few changes to suit and serve the needs of the community better. Check out release note or download it right away!

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.

ZK Pivottable 1.0 Officially Released! Introducing new features such as macro component for field control, customizable cell style, sizable columns & more!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:43:45 GMT

ZK Pivottable 1.0 is now officially released, introducing users to new features such as macro component for field control, customizable cell style, sizable columns and more! Check out release note or download.

ZK Team announces the release of ZK JSP 1.7 which is an upgrading release containing ZK 5.0.9

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:55:06 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK JSP 1.7 which upgrades the SEORenderer of ZK 5.0.9 to be compatible with ZK JSP. See documentation or download.

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!

Happy 6th Birthday to ZK!

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:52:07 GMT

Happy Birthday!!! ZK turns 6 years old this month! Thanks to all the support from each and every one of you. ZK Team will continue to do our best to provide you with the best of ZK!

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:40:40 GMT

We are celebrating the 6th anniversary of ZK! As of this month, ZK turns 6! ZK Team hereby thank the community for all the support and feedback you have given us and we will continue to do our best to serve the community with better and better products.

ZK 6 RC Released! Featuring Generic enhancements, new data binding system, jQuery & CSS Style Server-side Selectors

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:08:19 GMT

ZK 6 RC is now officially released introducing users to generic enhancements, next generation data binding system, jQuery & CSS Style Server-side Selectors and many more. For more details, please check out the release note, new features.

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.

ZK at OSC 2011 Tokyo

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:37:03 GMT

Contributor & creator of REM Sotohiro Terashima will be presenting "ZK on NetBeans" at OSC, Tokyo on Nov 19, 2011

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:10:07 GMT

Contributor and creator of REM, Sotohiro Terashima will presenting "ZK on NetBeans" at the Open Source Conference in Tokyo, Japan on November 19th, 2011. For more information, please visit the OSC website.

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.

ZK User Group 2011

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:26:21 GMT

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.

We are delighted to announce London, Mannheim and Munich User Groups taking place in December! The event is free and places are limited so register your place before they run out!

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:30:41 GMT

ZK's Timothy Clare will be heading to Europe this December to host User Groups in London, Mannheim and Munich, the event is free and places are limited so please register your place early to avoid disappointment!

Maik Jablonski has released Jease 2.5, the content management system with the ease of Java containing the latest ZK5.0.9

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:17:11 GMT

Maik Jablonski has released Jease 2.5, the content management system with the ease of Java containing the latest ZK5.0.9

Top contributor Chanwit has released ZKGrails 1.0.6 which is a maintenance release containing the latest ZK 5.0.9.

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:32:09 GMT

Top contributor Chanwit has released ZKGrails 1.0.6 which is a maintenance release containing the latest ZK 5.0.9.

ZK 5.0.9 Released! Maintenance release that focuses on fixing bugs including improvements for Websphere 5.1, Google App Engine & IE 9

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:06:48 GMT

ZK 5.0.9 Released! Maintenance release that focuses on fixing bugs including improvements for Websphere 5.1, Google App Engine & IE 9

ZK on cover page of October?s Java Tech Journal! Component-based frameworks ZK, JSF, Struts 2, Wicket and Stripes are compared and discussed in the issue.

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:25:16 GMT

ZK on cover page of October’s Java Tech Journal! Component-based frameworks ZK, JSF, Struts 2, Wicket and Stripes are compared and discussed in the issue.

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

ZK United States User Group, California

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:23:32 GMT

Ian Tsai, a senior ZK engineer, is hosting a ZK user group in the US in November, where he and some special guests will be speaking. Please click here for information on attending.

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:49:41 GMT

Ian Tsai has been in the US performing on site support for one of our large clients and decided it would be a great opportunity to host a user group for ZK’s many US based users and customers! Please take a look at the blog post for details on attending.

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.

ZK 5.0.9 will be released soon. Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.9 PE & EE will be released very soon so please give us your valuable feedback on the forum.

ZK 5.0.9 will be released soon. Please try out the CE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.9 CE will be released very soon so please give us your valuable feedback on the forum.

The website and services have been restored thanks to the effort of our MIS team. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The website and services have been restored thanks to the effort of our MIS team. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

IMPORTANT: Due to a hardware failure occurring in our host server, ZK Forum, Jira, Sandbox & Demo are currently unavailable. Our hosts are working towards a resolution and we hope to be back online soon.

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IMPORTANT: Due to a hardware failure occurring in our host server, ZK Forum, Jira, Sandbox & Demo are currently unavailable. Our hosts are working towards a resolution and we hope to be back online soon.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1.1 released! focusing on bug fixing and performance tuning, providing greater user experience

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1.1 released! focusing on bug fixing and performance tuning, providing greater user experience

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

CONGRATUALTIONS! Dennis Chen has won the IBM XPages Development Contest for his work in integrating ZK Spreadsheet into XPages

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CONGRATUALTIONS! Dennis Chen has won the IBM XPages Development Contest for his work in integrating ZK Spreadsheet into XPages

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!

IBM XPages Development Contest Winner

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.8 released! Focuses on bug fixing & a few new features including an upgrade to support JasperReports 4, introduction to a new databinding composer, locale improvements for components & others.

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.8 is a maintenance release focusing on fixing bugs with introductions to a few new features including an upgrade to support JasperReports 4 and Jython 2.5.2, an introduction to a new databinding composer, locale improvements for components and others.

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.

ZK Team is pleased to announce that an upgrading release of ZEST 1.1 is now available for download!

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to announce that an upgrading release of ZEST 1.1 is now available for download!

ZK Team is pleased to announce the release of ZK CKEditor 3.6.0.0 with new features is now available for download!

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Team is pleased to announce the release of ZK CKEditor 3.6.0.0 with new features is now available for download!

ZK 5.0.8 will be released soon. Please try out the CE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.8 will be released soon. Please try out the CE version here and give us your valuable feedback!

ZK 5.0.8 will be released soon. Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.8 will be released soon. Please try out PE & EE versions here and give us your valuable feedback!

ZK Spreadsheet integrated as a reusable control enabling users to embed excel functionality & features in IBM's XPages Applications

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet integrated as a reusable control enabling users to embed excel functionality & features in IBM's XPages 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

Automated Business Logic's integration with ZK enables developers to declare business rules thus minimizing effort

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Automated Business Logic's integration with ZK enables developers to declare business rules thus minimizing effort

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.

Dennis Chen will be presenting how users can embed ?ZK Spreadsheet for Xpage? to their application at IBM?s Taiwan Lotus User Group Conference 2011.

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Dennis Chen will be presenting how users can embed “ZK Spreadsheet for Xpage” to their application at IBM’s Taiwan Lotus User Group Conference 2011.

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

We are pleased to announce that an upgrading release of ZK Gmapsz 3.0.0 is now available for download!

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that an upgrading release of ZK Gmapsz 3.0.0 is now available for download!

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

Important: The issue tracker has been moved from SF.net to our own new system. Please click here for detailed information

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We have moved the issue tracker from sourceforge.net to our own new system. Please go to the annoucement blog for detailed information.

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

Job offerings open on ZK Pro Group on Linkedin for ZK experts including positions at SunGard & Open Gate

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Job offerings are now available on the ZK Pro Group on Linkedin for intelligents who are familiar with ZK including positions at SunGard & OpenGate

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.

Sorry for the downtime, a substantial recent website traffic increase has led to some server instability. Rest assured we are working on the issue.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As many of you have noticed the website has had some recent downtime. This is due to a substantial increase in webtraffic over the last couple of weeks. We are taking steps to make sure your ZK browsing experience is not interupted again! Thanks for your patience

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.

NetBeans REM 5.0.7 EE and CE, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.7 now released and available for download

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released NetBeans REM 5.0.7, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.7. Download REM 5.0.7 EE and REM 5.0.7 CE.

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.

Rich Portlet UI Development with ZK at Liferay Symposium 2011

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

SunGard sets ZK + Grails as base for new Banner system

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1 - now officially released with hot new Excel functionality more powerful than ever!

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1 is now officially released introducing hot new features including auto filter functionality, vertical merging, support for copying and pasting to Excel and exporting to HTML. For more details, please check out new features and release note or download it right away!

Case Study ? Institute for Information Industry utilizes ZK for Cloud Based Medical Solution

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK utilised for Cloud Based Medical Solution integrating Spring and Hibernate to increase diabetes patients' QOL and health care. III claims that ZK effectively reduces development time by a factor of 2. Read the whole story to find out more!

ZK JSP 1.6 Released allowing SEORenderer to an application-level listener!

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK JSP 1.6 which now allows SEORenderer to be an application-level listener and support for system-level initiator compatible with ZK 5.0.7. See documentation or download now!

Sign up for first ever ZK WEBINAR now! Find out more about ?ZK & JSP, when to use the technology together?

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The ZK team will be conducting a webinar on 2nd June on the topic “ZK & JSP, when to use the technology together”. For more details and how to sign up, click here.

ZK examples blog now online!

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Contributor Timo Ernst has created a blog with simple and quick examples of problems/use-cases developers might face during development. Check out his blog or sign up and share your example!

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1 is now ready for testing

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.1 will be released soon. Please try it out here and give us your valuable feedback.

ZK Grails 1.0.3 and 1.1-M1 released!

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Chanwit has released 2 versions of ZK Grails, both shipping with ZK 5.0.7. ZK Grails 1.0.3 is a maintenance release for the 1.0 series and ZK Grails 1.1-M1 is the first milestone of the 1.1 series focusing on the support of cloud portability and is now deployable to Cloud Foundry.

ZK 5.0.7 released!

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The 5.0.7 maintenance release focuses on fixing bugs and introduces newly improved features for ZK components including a full support for IE 9 and Firefox 4, improved touch functionalities for iOS browsers as well as improvements to i18n, tree sorting, listbox and many more. For more information, check out new features and release note. Download.

ZK 5.0.7 is now ready for testing

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.7 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

Jease 2.0 is now officially released!

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Maik Jablonski has announced a release of Jease 2.0 on Wednesday, a ZK based Content Management System providing Java users with even more ease, customizability and maintainability than before with hot new features now available for download! See Demo.

RESTful ZK with ZEST! now officially available!

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZEST 1.0, a lightweight web framework that enables MVC and REST architectural pattern is a new product developed by the ZK team and is now officially released.

ZK Themes officially released!

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Themes is now available for download offering a collection of various themes for the ZK framework. Themes can either be used or derived from and can be switched dynamically by a simple click providing users with powerful customisability and satisfaction. Get Started and see demo.

Run-jetty-run 1.2.1 Released!

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Developer Tony Wang has developed and released run-jetty-run 1.2.1, a plug-in which enables you to run web applications in Eclipse using its embedded Jetty distribution. For more information please see the release notes.

SunGard sets ZK + Grails as base for new Banner system

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

??Building the UI in the new Banner by using ZK Grails simplifies the development of the user interface for everyday web developers?? remarked SunGard GM Robert Rullo in his presentation at the SunGard Summit 2011.

ZK Pivottable 1.0.0 Beta Released!

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to release a beta version of ZK Pivottable, an Ajax data component with advanced features such as paging, subtotals and events. For more information on what ZK Pivottable is please click here. Release Notes.Download Here.

JavATE 0.7 Released!

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

JavATE is a set of Java libraries that enables application development inspired by domain driven design which utilizes ZK. JavATE 0.7 brings exciting new features such as Enhanced Spring support and Multi-attribute sorting. For more information please click here and download here.

ZK Spring Essentials

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our new book ZK Spring Essentials which guides developers on how to use the ZK Spring integration library. To take a look please click here.

Netbeans REM 5.0.6 EE and CE Released

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released Netbeans REM 5.0.6, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.6. Download REM 5.0.6 EE and REM 5.0.6 CE.

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.

ZKGrails 1.0.2 released

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Chanwit has released ZKGrails 1.0.2 which supports Grails 1.2.x, 1.3.x and ZK 5.0.6! Download here. Release notes.

ZK CKEditor 3.5.2 and ZK JSP 1.5 released

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of both ZK CKEditor 3.5.2 and ZK JSP 1.5! For ZK CKEditor please click here and for ZK JSP please click here.

ZK Jet 1.3 Released!

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen has released a new version of ZK Jet for Firefox providing adding widget validation for ZK 5. ZK Jet gives users a browser based ZK sandbox enabling rapid prototyping and experimentation. For more information please click here.

Introduction to ZK in Spanish

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We would like to congratulate Francisco Ferri who gave an introduction to ZK talk at XIV Autentia. Thanks for representing us in such an excellent manner Francisco! To view the video please click here [Spanish].

ZK Spring 3.0 Released

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Spring 3.0 which brings with it support for Spring Core, Security and Web Flow 3.0. Since the last official release there have been 13 new features and 8 bug fixes. Download here.

ZK Spring 3 is now ready for testing

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spring 3 will be released soon. Please try out the latest freshly versions, and give us your valuable feedback on the forum.

ZK 5.0.6 released!

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The 5.0.6 maintenance release introduces new features such as custom SEO content renderer, a new interactive tree model, and additional built in UI effects on widgets. Please see the release note here, check out the new features here, and download here.

ZK Fusion Chart released!

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In addition to JFreeChart and FlashChart integration ZK is proud to bring you a new selection of charts based upon the free version of FusionCharts which empowers you to create animated and interactive FlashCharts for your web applications. Project homepage. Documentation.

ZK Fusion Chart released!

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Jease 1.7 Released!

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Maik has released Jease 1.7 which introduces a discussion content type which enables blog-like functionality. For more information please click here.

Case Study - RWorks

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

RWorks produced a cloud computing solution dedicated to managing a dispersed team. RWorks recognized the productivity increases that ZK brings to the table stating "we needed to be productive fast ... only ZK provided that level of business agility." Read more (PDF). Application Demo.

ZK 5.0.6 is now ready for testing

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.6 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

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.

XIV charla Autentia - a ZK Talk in Spain

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Francisco Ferri, a ZK expert from Autentia, will give an introduction on ZK on February 9th in Madrid, Spain. The admission is free and the live broadcast will be hosted here. Unete a la diversion!

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0.1 Released

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet has been released sporting 4 new features and 19 bug fixes. New features include support for wrapping ZK Spreadsheet as a JSP tag and a multi line formula editor. For more information please check the release notes. To download click 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 Spring 1.2 Released

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Spring 1.2 which enables the use of Spring Webflow with ZK 5 and improves the performance of the Composer with zul files. To download please click here.

ZK Studio 1.0 Released

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This latest version of ZK Studio comes with advanced features such as ZK MVC Extractor which refactors zscript??s event listeners into Java code that conforms to ZK??s MVC pattern. Read the release note. Download and give it a try. Browse its documentation.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 is released

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 is released! Users can collaborate online, work with advanced spreadsheet functionalities such as 3-D cell reference, JavaBean binding and more. The embeddable Ajax component is fully programmable in pure Java with no plug-ins required. Check out its features and release notes. Read the documentation. Download here.

ZKGrails 1.0.1 Released

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit??s shipped out a maintenance release of ZK Grails, tested with Grails 1.3.6. Please go check it out.

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.

UK User Group Reports

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The UK User Group was concluded successfully yesterday. Thanks to all the participants for making it a memorable event. Star contributor Simon Massey shares with us his presentation on Patterns here, please take a look!

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 will be released soon

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 is going to be released soon. Please stay tuned and download the freshly build to give it a try. Any issues encountered can be reported here, your feedback is much appreciated.

ZK Essentials

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Essentials is another addition to ZK??s online book series. ZK Essentials walks readers through the key concepts and features by building a working application from the ground up. Any feedback you give or improvements you make are much welcomed. Read it here.

UK User Group 2010!

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

UK User Group 2010 will be held on December 15th, in London. Tim Clare will be hosting the event and sharing with the participants on the new exciting developments in ZK! Our star contributors will also be there to share their visions and experience with the group. Check out the event agenda here.

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.

Case Study - Doubleslash

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

doubleSlash used ZK to develop a secure file transfer platform for use within a corporate environment. doubleSlash mainly worked with form elements such as trees and list. doubleSlash stated "They [form controls] were easy to implement and, more importantly, to customize. With ZK, it was all possible!" Read more here [PDF].

Netbeans REM 5.0.5 EE and CE Released

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released Netbeans REM 5.0.5, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.5. Download REM 5.0.5 EE and REM 5.0.5 CE

ZK Calendar 2.1.0 Released!

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Calendar 2.1.0 is updated with features that customize the scheduling grid for a more friendly UI experience. Please click here to check out the features. Download 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.

Jease 1.4 Released!

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Top contributor Maik has released Jease 1.4 which makes ZK??s rich set of components available for use in public websites. For more information please click here.

Experienced ZK developers needed

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of the top commercial backup software companies is searching for experienced ZK developers. For more information pleaseclick here.

ZK Gmaps 2.0.51 released!

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to introduce the latest release, ZK Gmaps 2.0.51, which is a maintenance release focusing on bug fixes. Download here!

Italian translations

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A big grazie mille to our Italian contributor Stefano Bianchi who has translated both our Getting Started Guide and Quick Start Guide into Italian!

UK User Group 2010!

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce our UK user group is going to be held on Wednesday 15th December in London. The event is free but places are limited so don delay! For more information please click here.

ZKGrails 1.0 Released!

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit has released version 1.0 of the open-source Grails integration project, ZKGrails, supporting ZK 5.0.5! The release denotes a historic milestone for the highly popular project which is used in many noteworthy ZK based customer applications. For more information please click here.

ZK 5.0.5 Released!

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.5 is a maintenance release focusing on fixing bugs and releasing new improved features for ZK components. ZK 5.0.5 brings with it an upgrade to jQuery 1.4.3 as well as enhancements to the Listbox, Tree and hlayout among others. In addition ZK Breeze theme is now bundled with ZK 5.0.5. For more information please see the release notes and new features.

ZKGrails 1.0-RC3 Released

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The new milestone of ZKGrails, the ZK plugin for Grails, has been released. New features include an update to ZK 5.0.5 freshly in preparation for the final 1.0 release. For more information please click here. Download here.

ZK 5.0.5 is now ready for testing

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.5 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

ZK CodeMirror Component released!

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor and creator of Jease, Maik Jablonski, has released an excellent ZK component wrapping CodeMirror which is a code editor with syntax highlighting. For more information please click here. Demo.

Enhance Ajax development with a fusion of ZK and jQuery

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sachin K Mahajan, IBM software developer, and Lance Lu, ZK Technology Evangelist, discuss the benefits of ZKs Server+client fusion architecture and ZKs integration of jQuery on IBM developerWorks.

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.

ZKGrails 1.0-M5 Released!

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The new milestone of ZKGrails, the ZK plugin for Grails, has been released. New features include an update to ZK 5.0.4, sub-plugin architecture and comet enhancement. For more information please click here. Download here.

JavATE 0.6 Released!

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

JavATE is a set of Java libraries that enables application development inspired by domain driven design which utilizes ZK. JavATE has now reached 0.6 bringing exciting new features such as Spring support, custom command executors and command undo. For more information please click here. Download here.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 RC Released

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 RC is the next generation embeddable Ajax spreadsheet made compatible with ZK 5 and implemented using Apache POI; making advanced spreadsheet functionalities available on browsers and programmable in Java. Check out its features and release notes. Download and try ZK Spreadsheet 2.0.

Experienced ZK developers needed

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

There is a good opportunity at a large Fortune 500 company for experienced ZK developers who will join their team for 6 months with the possibility of an extension. For more information please click here.

ZK 5.0.4 Style Guide

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our new book ZK 5.0.4 Style Guide which demonstrates how to style ZK 5. Any feedback you give or improvements you make are welcomed. To take a look please click here.

When GSP is not enough - using ZK RIA Framework with Grails

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jean Barmash will hold a session on ZK with Groovy and Grails at the Spring One conference on Friday October 22nd. 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 Spreadsheet 2 Beta 3 Released!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the release of the ZK Spreadsheet??s 3rd Beta bringing with it 21 more features. One of the key features in beta 3 is the ability to export your ZK Spreadsheet in PDF format. For more information on new features please click here. Download Now.

ZK JSP 1.4.1 Released!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK JSP 1.4.1 which now adds supports for the flashchar tag. To download the release please click here.

ZK 5.0.4 Released!

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.4 is a release focusing on memory improvements and introducing requested new features. In addition to a significant reduction in memory usage ZK 5.0.4 also introduces many new features such as communication between iFrames, new horizontal and vertical layouts and enhanced components such as the slider and combobox. For more information please see the release notes and new features.

ZK Theme, Breeze 5.0.4 released

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the update for our free theme named Breeze. If you are upgrading to ZK 5.0.4 please update breeze to version 5.0.4! For more details on the theme please click here.

CKEditor 3.3.2, ZK Timeline 2.3.1 and ZK Timeplot 1.1 released!

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New versions of ZK CKEditor, ZK Timeline and ZK Timeplot have been released.

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.

doubleSlash release secureTransfer

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

doubleSlash have announced the release of secureTransfer which is built on ZK technology enabling rapid development. SecureTransfer is web tool for secure file transfers in a corporate environment. SecureTransfers "Community Edition" is available free of charge. For more information please click here.

Running ZK 5 with Liferay 6

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the release of Liferay 6 comes a tutorial on how to run it with ZK 5. For a walkthrough on how to do this please click here.

ZK 5.0.4 is now ready for testing

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.4 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

Case Study - Dimoco

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Dimoco developed an enterprise grade administration system using ZK. Dimoco stated "ZK evidently reduced development time for DIMOCO??s Administration GUIs. Comparing to their existing STRUTS framework, the time factor is obvious?K" Read more here [PDF].

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.

ZK Theme, Breeze released

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce a free theme named Breeze. The theme has culminated months of feedback from our community and we hope you enjoy it! For more details on the theme please click here.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta2 Released

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta2 has been released providing all the functionality you enjoyed from previous versions and adding to it. New features include, but are not limited to, Drag and Drop editing, Hyperlink follow-up and Rich text within cells. For more information please see the release notes and new features.

Netbeans REM 5.0.3 EE and CE Released

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released Netbeans REM 5.0.3, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.3. Download REM 5.0.3 EE and REM 5.0.3 CE

Developing MVC Applications Using ZK and Spring

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Srinivas provides an illustration of how an MVC based Web application can be developed using ZK and Spring. For more information please click here.

Case Study - Omnisys

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Omnisys developed an enterprise grade free systems monitoring and management platform using ZK. Brendan Smith of Omnisys states "Once I had decided that the Java + Hibernate + Ajax architecture best fit my goals, ZK was a clear front-runner." Read more here.

ZK 5.0.3 ZUML Reference Released and ZK 5.0.3 Configuration Reference

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of two new books, ZK 5.0.3 ZUML Reference and ZK 5.0.3 Configuration Reference. Any feedback you give or improvements you make are welcomed.

ZK 5.0.3 Component Development Essentials

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our new book ZK 5.0.3 Component Development Essentials which guides you through component creation with ZK 5. Any feedback you give or improvements you make are welcomed. To take a look 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.

Jease 1.0 Released

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Maik jablonski has released Jease 1.0 based upon the latest ZK release 5.0.3. Jease provides a rock stable building block for creating customized Content-Management-Systems with Java without having to worry about complicated technologies like persistence. For a more information on the exciting new features in this milestone release click here.

ZKuery released!

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZKuery is a complete, feature rich widget set for jQuery programmers with over 90 state of the art Ajax widgets including Grid, Listbox and Trees. For more information on the widget set 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.

ZK 5.0.3 Released!

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK 5.0.3. ZK 5.0.3 is a maintenance release introducing 15 new features including a custom calendar renderer and 84 bug fixes. For more information please see the release notes and new features.

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.

ZK at University of Dakar, Senegal

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Moussa WADE, software engineer at Salma Technology will be presenting "RIA with the Ajax Framework ZK" at University of Dakar, Senegal on July 2nd. For more information on this seminar, please click here (French).

ZK 5.0.3 is now ready for testing

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.3 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

RIA com Framework ZK book released (Portuguese)

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Vicente Camargo,professor at PUC GOIAS, is proud to announce the release of the book Ria com Framework ZK which is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of developing rich internet applications in Java using the ZK framework. For more information on this excellent book please click here (Portuguese).

Jease 0.9 Released

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Maik jablonski has released Jease 0.9 boasting a plethora of new features such as clickable bread-crumb navigation, trash object and concurrent content detection. For a more information on this exciting release please click here.

ZKSeam2 0.8.1 Released

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of our star contributors, Dennis Chen, has announced the release of ZKSeam2 0.8.1 which brings further integration between ZK and Seam2. For more information on ZK Seam please click here!

jQuery4j 0.8 Released

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

jQuery4j 0.8 has been released to the public. The project is based on ZK 5 and brings developers the ability to control jQuery widgets using Java or a markup language. For more information you can take a look at the project page and visit the demo!

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.

An interview with ZK creator Tom Yeh

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Recently Mokabyte, a large Italian IT publication, contacted ZKs creator Tom Yeh for an interview. The interview can be found here [Italian].

Exploring the CDI programming model in ZK

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sachin K Mahajan, IBM software developer, and Ashish Dasnurkar, ZK engineer, explore ZKs integration with JavaEEs Contexts and Dependency Injection. It is posted on IBMs developerWorks.

Ease of Use - DreamWorks

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DreamWorks Animations Richard Holland talked about why they choose ZK and how they use ZK. View his impressive presentation file here.

Netbeans REM 5.0.2 EE and CE Released

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released Netbeans REM 5.0.2, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.2. Download REM 5.0.2 EE and REM 5.0.2 CE

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.

Case Study - 4x Productivity with ZK

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

PrimeScale AG, a consulting company based in Germany shares with us how its team found the productivity it was looking for using ZK, while building a configuration management database application with JasperReports, and Quartz.
Read more

ZK 5.0.2 Component Reference

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our new book ZK 5.0.2 Component Reference which provides a structured reference for all the latest components included with ZK. To take a look click here.

ZKGrails 1.0-M4 Released

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit has released a new milestone version of the open-source ZK Grails project supporting ZK 5.0.2. This release introduces 7 new features and fixes 16 bugs. For more information 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.

ZK 5.0.2 Released!

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK 5.0.2. ZK 5.0.2 is a maintenance release introducing 12 new features including auto pagesize for paging components and 72 bug fixes. For more information please see the release notes and new features.

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.

Pasadenas JUG: ZK at DreamWorks

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Pasadena JUG has invited DreamWorks Animations technical lead, Richard Holland, to talk about ZKs ease of use and rich features. For more information please click here.

ZK 5.0.2 is now ready for testing

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5.0.2 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

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.

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta Released

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta, made compatible with ZK 5.0, gets a rewritten backend data model and formula evaluation engine which gives benefits such as support for rich text and the importing of Excel 2007 xlsx files. Please see the release note.

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.

Maven Server Released

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our maven server enabling you to easily manage your ZK projects. The ZK Maven repository is located here. For details on how to use the repository please click here.

ZK Spring 3.0RC Released

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Spring 3.0RC which brings with it support for Spring Core and Security 3.0. Since the last official release there have been 13 new features and 8 bug fixes. Download here.

ZKGrails 1.0-M3 Released

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit has released a new milestone version of the open-source ZK Grails project supporting ZK 5.0.1. This release introducing 5 new features and fixing 9 bugs. For more information please click here.

ZK ZTL Released

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of the ZUL Testing Language (ZTL). ZTL is an open source tool which automates ZK testing using jUnit and Selenium frameworks. 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.

ZKGrails 0.7.8 released

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit has released a new maintenance version of ZKGrails supporting ZK 3.6.4 and Grails 1.1.2 and above. For more information please consult the release notes.

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.

Java EE 6 CDI integration has arrived

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Today we are pleased to announce the release of ZK CDI 1.0RC, a CDI extension for ZK which is based on the portable extension mechanism defined in JSR-299 of the Java EE Platform 6. For more information please consult our Getting started guide. Download now.

Netbeans REM 5.0.1 CE, EE and 3.6.4 released

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released final NetBeans REM versions supporting ZK 5.0.1 CE, EE & ZK 3.6.4. Download REM 5.0.1 CE, REM 5.0.1 EE, REM 3.6.4.

A new resource for ZK developers: ZK Books!

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Books are structured online documentation that are downloadable in PDF format for registered users. Read our first ZK Book, ZK Calendar Essentials, in the ZK Books homepage.

ZK 5.0.1 and ZK 3.6.4 released!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of two ZK releases. ZK 5.0.1 provides 11 new features, including the move to jQuery 1.4.2, along with 57 bug fixes. The release of ZK 3.6.4 provides 3 new features, including transient Listbox and Grid Renderers and Models, and 40 bug fixes. ZK 5.0.1 ZK 3.6.4

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).

ZK 5.0.1 and ZK 3.6.4 are now available for testing

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Updates to ZK 5.0 and ZK 3.6 will be released soon. Please try out ZK 5.0.1 CE, PE/EE, ZK 3.6.4 and give us your valuable feedback on the tracker.

Netbeans REM 5 CE & EE released

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released final NetBeans REM versions supporting ZK 5 CE & EE. Download REM 5 CE REM 5 EE.

ZK Jet 1.1.0 released

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jumper Chen has released a new version of ZK Jet for Firefox providing line numbering and syntax highlighting. ZK Jet gives users a browser based ZK sandbox enabling rapid prototyping and experimentation. For more information please click here.

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.

Server+client Fusion: An Architectural Proposal

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Dr. Dobbs has published an article by Timothy Clare which introduces Server+client Fusion Architecture. The article discusses how Server+client Fusion can be leveraged to further increase your productivity. 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.

ZKGrails 1.0-M2 Released

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chanwit has released ZKGrails 1.0-M2. This milestone release supports ZK 5 and Grails 1.2. This version comes with a very exciting feature, GSP tag library support. You can now be able to use Grails taglib to develop ZUL components!

ZK Calendar 2.0 released!

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce the release of ZK Calendar 2.0 which brings support for ZK 5! For more information on ZK Calendar please click here.

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.

ZK CKEditor 3.1 and ZK FCKeditor 2.6.5 released!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New versions of ZK CKEditor and ZK FCKeditor have been released. Both of these extensions support ZK 5!

ZK Timeline 2.3 and ZK Timeplot 1.0 released!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New versions of ZK Timeline and ZK Timeplot have been released. Both of these extensions support ZK 5!

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.

ZK expert required for Minneapolis based company

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Minnieapolis based Fortune 500 company is in need of a ZK expert to help mentor and coach their team. 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.

ZK 5 is officially released!

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The official release of ZK 5 marks the launch of ZK??s ??Developer-Centric?? paradigm. At the core are the Server+client Fusion and Ajax-as-a-Service architectural innovations. The integration of jQuery and Java EE 6 CDI, as well as additional enterprise level functionalities, is among the main advancements in ZK 5. For more details, please view the ZK 5 New Features.

ZK at OSC2010, Tokyo, Japan

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

On the 26th and 27th of February, Sotohiro Terashima, will be presenting "ZK on Netbeans" and have a booth at OSC 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. For more information on Sotohiros session please click here (Japanese).

Integrate ZK with Stax

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Stax, the cloud-computing platform, has released a wiki article demonstrating ZK integration.

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 will be released soon!

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5 will be released in the near future so stay tuned for more freshly releases in the coming days. Please test these releases with your application and give us feedback on the tracker!

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.

Applying Input Masks With JQuery

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Gyowanny P. Queiroz, application architect at IBM, walks us through applying jQuery input masks to ZK components. For more information please click here.

Building Rich Internet Applications Using ZK

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sachin K Mahajan, software developer at IBM, demonstrates the component based, event driven nature of the ZK framework using a complete tutorial with real world implications. It is posted on IBMs developerWorks.

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.

ZK Calendar 2.0 RC released!

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to release ZK Calendar 2.0 RC with support for ZK 5. ZK Calendar is an open source Ajax calendar component boasting full desktop calendar features readily embeddable into your applications! Download here.

ZK Spring 1.2 RC and ZK Gmaps 2.0_50 released!

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to introduce ZK Gmaps 2.0_50 which supports ZK 5 and ZK Spring 1.2.0 RC supporting both ZK 5 and 3!

ZK JSP, Timeline, FCKeditor and CKeditor RCs released!

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to introduce release candidates of some of our most popular components. For use with ZK 5, Timeplot, Timeline, FCKeditor, CKeditor and compatible with both ZK 5 and 3, ZK JSP tags!

ZK 5 RC2 Released!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the release of ZK 5 RC2 with our developer-centric approach. We have included a host of new features including two large architectural innovations, new components and numerous new features! Take a look at the new features!

ZK Studio 0.9.6 Released!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Studio 0.9.6 which includes support for ZK 5 and IBM RAD 7.5! Download 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.

ZK 5 RC 2 will be released soon!

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5 RC 2 will be released in the near future. Please test the freshly release zk-5.0.0-RC2-FL-2009-12-02 with your applications and don forget to give us feedback on the tracker!

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.

NetBeans REM 3.6.3 & 5.0.0 RC released

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Star contributor Sotohiro has released two NetBeans REM versions which support ZK 3.6.3 and ZK 5.0.0 RC respectively also adding the Grid component to the palette. Download REM 3.6.3 REM 5.0.0 RC.

ZK 3.6.3 Released!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to unveil ZK 3.6.3 which brings about improvements in the performance of applications in addition to introducing several new features such as new charts, new Menu functionality, positional improvements and over 70 bugs fixed. New features! Download!

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)

ZK 3.6.3 will be released shortly!

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 3.6.3 will be released soon. Please test the freshly release zk-3.6.3-FL-2009-10-23 with your applications and don forget to give us feedback on the tracker!

New ZK Forum Online!!

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The brand spanking new ZK Forum is now open! Please post your questions and share your ideas here. We look forward to meeting you on the new forum.

Integration with ZK - MVC pattern in ZK with Spring

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Michele Mazzei introduces us the basic concept of ZK in Mokabyte N?X144 by applying the MVC pattern in ZK with Spring, using a simple example. Check it out here! (Italian)

ZK 5 component CKEditor

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to introduce you to a new ZK 5 component CKEditor. You can view the demo here or download the freshly release here.

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.

Internet.coms article - Direct RIA: Future of RIA

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng internet.com article discusses the fusion of server and client centric applications and what this means for the future of RIA! For more information click here.

ZK on Mokabyte

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mokabyte is one of the most important java site in Italy. Thanks for Michele Mazzei for providing an overview on ZK in Italian. Get more information here. (Italian)

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

ZK 5 RC Released!

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the release of ZK 5 RC with our developer-centric approach. We have included a host of new features including two large architectural innovations, Server+Client Fusion and Ajax-as-a-Service! Take a look at the new features!

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!

JavaHispano podcast - A Spanish introduction to ZK

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

For our Spanish speaking community javahispano.org have got an excellent podcast with Marioko introducing ZK! To find out more click here!

ZK 5 RC will be released soon!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 5 RC will be released in the near future. Please test the freshly release zk-5.0.0-FL-2009-09-18 with your applications and don forget to give us feedback on the tracker!

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!

ZK Google Maps 2.0_12 released!

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The new release of ZK Google Maps brings support for a new event and numerous bug fixes! To download the new release click here!

Star contributor translates Developers Guide

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sotohiro Terashima, one of ZKs star contributors, has kindly translated the latest version of the ZK Developers Guide (3.6.2) into Japanese, you can find it here!

ZK on MUNDO JAVA

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mundo Java is the most famous java magazine in Brazil, and heres an article showing you the basic concepts of ZK provided by Thiago Baesso Procaci. Get more information here. (Portuguese)

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 Wins out of 57 Web Frameworks

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

CommSy, a web-based community system, has been migrated to Java to improve its scalability and usability.

ZK is honored to be chosen out of 57 frameworks by meeting all hard and soft criteria, including prototype evaluation. More importantly, ZK also proved to be easier and more effective. The evaluation process is detailed described in this thesis (pdf, German) from the University of Hamburg.

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 preview released!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the release of ZK 5 preview edition with some major changes, including a move to the LGPL license, a revolutionary architecture client+server fusion offering the same productivity gains with more control and the use of jQuery allowing you maximize the user experience. Download it here!

Final Voting in Sourceforge.net CCA

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK has been named as one of the finalists at Sourceforge.net Community Choice Awards 2009 in two categories. The final phase of voting will run until July 20th 2009. Now is the perfect time to Vote for ZK!

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!

ZK Studio 0.9.5 released

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Studio 0.9.5 which includes support for Eclipse 3.5 Galileo and an enhanced ZUL editor supporting JDT-like code formatting in zscript and the ability to toggle zscript comments. Download here!

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!

ZK 3.6.2 Released

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The focus of ZK 3.6.2 was on performance improvement, especially in IE6. In addition, 48 bugs have been fixed and more powerful features introduced, such as include modes, Google App Engine support and initialization directive improvements! Checkout the new features!

ZK Named Finalist in the SourceForge CCA

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thank you for your support. ZK has again been named as a finalist in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.Please vote ZK as Best Tool or Utility for Developers and Best Visual Design here!

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.

ZK @ Jazoonﾡﾦ09, Zurich

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Daniel Seiler will present ??RIA with the Ajax Framework ZK: Boost Your Productivity?? at Jazoon, one of the largest Java conferences in Europe, on June 25. You are welcome to come along and learn more about ZK! Get more information here.

ZK 3.6.2 will be released shortly!

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 3.6.2 is going to be released shortly, please test the freshly of ZK 3.6.2 06/17 on your applications. And don forget giving us feedback to tracker if there exists any problem.

ZK Web Flow 1.0 RC released

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Web Flow is an event-driven Ajax web flow system without the need for complex XML configuration. Alongside the simplicity of development, ZK Web Flow includes advanced features such as Auto History Management. See the tutorial! Download here!

ZK at AJAX World RIA Conference

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Robbie Cheng from the ZK Team will give a session at the AJAXWorld RIA Conference in New York City on June 23. You can meet Robbie there if you happen to join the conference. View the schedule.

ZK Studio 0.9.4 released

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This version focuses on new features to make developing ZK Web Applications even easier and faster! New features include direct creation of ZK Projects, a ZK Perspective, new custom examples and more! Click here for more details! Download here!

ZK 3.6.2 will be released!

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK 3.6.2 is going to be released in the near future, please test the freshly of ZK 3.6.2 06/09 on your applications. And don forget giving us feedback to tracker if there exists any problem.

ZK announce support for Google App Engine

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

With the release of ZK 3.6.2 just around the corner we are pleased to announce support for Google App Engine! For more information on how to integrate ZK with Google App Engine, please click here.

"Rich interface development using Grails and ZK" @ JGGUG

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sotohiro Terashima will give a speech on " Rich interface development using Grails and ZK " at the Japan Grails/ Groovy User Group in the IBM offices, Tokyo on the 8th June. For more details, please click here (Japanese)

Embed ZK Calendar within your own Java application!

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The ZK Calendar Ajax component allows you to harness the power of a fully featured web-based calendar within your own Java application! Make the most of features such as calendar sharing, drag & drop events, multiple time zone support, various viewing modes, permission controls and many more by! View live demo.

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!

ZK Jet 1.0.0 Released

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This version provides 5 new features for ease of use, including opening a zul file, code formatting, Zul Palette, ZScript support, Service URL history. Visit Demo.

Experience ZK SpreadSheet Live Demo!

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Explore various examples using the 1st embeddable Ajax Spreadsheet for Java Applications! Visit Demo.

SF 2009 CCA Open: Nominate ZK Now!

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thank you for your support -- ZK has been chosen as the finalist of 3 categories in 8 and 7. Now, the 2009 Community Choice Awards is open. If you like ZK, nominate ZK for Best Tool or Utility for Developers and more...

ZK Spreadsheet 1.0.0 RC2 Released

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Spreadsheet 1.0.0 RC2 brings you a more stable spreadsheet component and an online spreadsheet application.

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.

ZK 3.6.1 Released

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The main focus of ZK 3.6.1 was on bug-fixing, with over 47 bugs fixed. In addition to the host of bugs eradicated 20 new features have been added, including a debug mode for unit-testing and MVC enhancement!

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

Case Study - Mecatena

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Read to find out how Mecatena uses ZK to fit the specific needs of customers!

REM 3.0.1 Released.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

REM3.0.1 supports NetBeans 6.7M3, and provides better integration with Groovy and Grails. Download Now!

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.

REM 2.0.3 Released

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

REM is a NetBeans module for ZK application development.Version 2.0.3 which supports ZK 3.6.0 and NetBeans 6.1/6.5 has just been released here.

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.

Reading from the DB with Netbeans and ZK

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article shows that how display data with zul using the JPA.

ZK Studio 0.9.3 released

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Studio 0.9.3 released, this version brings a Zeta DB Form Buidler & Style Designer is fully suport ZK version 3.6! Details>>

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

Style Guide for ZK 3.6 released

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

More than 100 components style guide have been released.

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

ZK 3.6.0 Released

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Over 28 new features and 44 bugs fixed. Listbox supports auto-sorting on fields. Applet Component allows you to embed Java Applet to run application on client side. Moreover, CSS and images are simplified and optimized for better performance.

Sun Microsystems Recruiting

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

For Web Developer. Java, AJAX/ JavaScript/ ZK is a plus: Bay Area & Denver Area.

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 selected as SourceForge.net Project of the Month

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK has been selected as the Project of the Month of February 2009 at SourceForge.net. Read to know more about ZK and The Team.

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.

ZK Mobile 0.8.10 released

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This version lifts the dependency on JSR 172(SAX Parser) so much more mobile phones are now supported. This release also adds a new button component and other new features and fixes some bugs.

ZK Gmaps 2.0_11 released

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This is a minor bug fix release.

Refresh with Five New ZK Themes!

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thank for Luca Vidonis contribution. Download five new ZK themes to refresh the layout of your Web application. They are green, gray, orange, red, yellow!

Roadmap 2009 Announced

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Roadmap 2009 provides the ZK community with guidance and visibility on the future directions of ZK. Log in to feedback.

ZK Studio Screencast

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Watch Screencast to Build a RIA with ZK Studio in 4 Steps!

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.

ZK Studio 0.9.2 released

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ZK Studio 0.9.2 released! A new ZK Style Designer, and you can change the theme in seconds. Details>>

ROZK 0.6.1 released

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ROZK is an open source tool to build CRUD forms with jRuby and ZK with minimal codes, created by David Cheung. More on ROZK.

Publish Articles on ZK Wiki Documentations

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Explore brand new ZK Wiki Documentations, and publish your articles to the ZK Community. Lets make it better!

OfBiz + ZK Integration

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Milind Parikh provided video tutorials integrating OfBiz and ZK. Please click these links to view:1 2 3 4