The time has come for me to head back to England for a few weeks holiday to see my friends and family . This will be my first time back in the UK for a couple of years and I am really looking forward to it. Whilst I am in the UK I decided to host a user group for ZK uses and those who are interested in ZK. With the help of two key contributors, David Hamilton and Simon Massey, the meet is becoming a reality!

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the first ever UK ZK User Group will be held in London on Wednesday 15th December from 4pm until 6pm. THIS IS A FREE EVENT.

JSR-299 spec of JEE6 platform defines a simple yet very powerful event notification model. It has three significant parts; event producer, event payload and event observer. In this blog I will explain how ZK developers can leverage this model to write UI event handlers. Lets take a look at the example demo first. It is […]

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.

The JSR-299 passed its final release stage on December 10, 2009 and programming by dependency injection has become a standard part of the Java EE 6 platform. It is time to test integrating ZK with JSR-299 or CDI — Context and Dependency Injection for Java EE platform. And here is the result, the Hello World […]

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.

Nowadays application development is a matter of dealing with a large number of technologies, libraries, frameworks, etc. You typically
have to put together things such as Hibernate or JPA with LDAP directories, content repositories and with ZK etc.

To handle this we can use JavATE.

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

A big thank you to one of our German contributors named Stephan (terrytornado) as he located a thesis from the University of Hamburg in Germany regarding a port of CommSy, a webbased community system to support learning and working communities, into Java.

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