At ZK, we have always valued the power of community. Since our journey began as an open-source project, the contributions and feedback from our users have played a key role in shaping our products. In 2024, we conducted a year-end Customer Survey to gather insights and ideas from our users. We are truly grateful to everyone who […]

Thank you for participating in the 2024 ZK Community Survey! Your insights are invaluable for understanding your needs and enhancing our products and services. Here are some interesting findings from the survey: IntelliJ has surpassed Eclipse as the preferred IDE among ZK users. While some have migrated to Jakarta EE, half of our users remain […]

We are thrilled to share an exciting development from our peer developers at Potix Corporation – the introduction of Ottava, our cutting-edge data management and analysis platform.  Unlike most tools that require reverting to 2D/tabular data before conducting detailed analyses, Ottava empowers users to directly input, explore, and derive insights from multi-dimesional reports. This distinctive […]

Client MVVM is one of the key features in the upcoming ZK 10, which reduces memory footprint and improves response time by moving data binding from the server side to the client side. While the upgrade from Server MVVM to Client MVVM is usually a straightforward process that requires no modification to existing code, certain […]

ZK’s partner Raiz Digital/Cumbresoft will soon hold a month-long ZK Essential Workshop in Spanish. Don’t miss the chance to learn ZK and interact with Spanish-speaking ZK developers around the world! 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥 | 𝗭𝗞 𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗢¡Sumate a nuestro taller sobre ZK, y adquirí los conocimientos esenciales para aprender a desarrollar con este framework!  ✅ Inicio: 03 de […]

One of the core reasons why users love to work with ZK is the ability to interact with the Web frontend with Java alone. No messy HMTL, CSS, nor JavaScript; just good-old Java. However, there are still occasions where you want to get your hands dirty with JavaScript, e.g., creating custom components. As a dynamically-typed […]

To celebrate the upcoming 10th release of the framework, ZK Team has put tremendous effort into it, hoping to bring you even faster and lighter experiences. Client MVVM and Stateless Components are notable new features that will significantly save your server-side memory and boost your application performance. In addition, ZK 10 empowers you to build […]

A few weeks ago, we interviewed the developer of Stateless Components. Today, we will chat with the developer working on another major ZK 10 advancement: Client MVVM. James has been working in the team since 2014. He typically works on developing core ZK and ZK add-ons. 📢What was the starting point in the development of […]

One of the significant advancements in ZK 10 is Stateless Components. Instead of learning how to use the feature, today, we will talk to the key person behind the scenes and look at how he came up with the ideas and what challenges he had during this journey.  We are happy that we could interview […]

Time flies. 16 years have passed since the first release of ZK and now we are in the middle of getting ready for the 10th major version! We are here with two brand new architectural advancements: Client MVVM for bringing major performance boost and Stateless Components for making it possible to build cloud-native applications and fully leverage cloud resources […]