If you have a ZK 8.0 (or even older) project, this question must have popped up a few times in your head. If you have never thought about it, it’s time — it’s been 5 YEARS since ZK 8.0 was released. Before answering this question, let’s look at WHAT has been changed in the meantime. […]

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Introduction Most ZK use cases require a server-side event listener. This said, sometime a client-side listener can be more relevant. In this article, we are going to explain the difference between a server-side and a client-side event listener. We will also see when a client-side listener is a good choice for a workflow. Server-side listener […]

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Introduction In some of the use cases it is convenient for users to select a value or a range by dragging a handle, and the  Slider component has been provided for this purpose. Now, instead of having to use multiple sliders to choose multiple values, we are glad to introduce two new components in ZK 9 […]

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Introduction Being able to let users to “select” is always a key feature in modern web applications. ZK framework has been providing various ways such as Selectbox, Combobox, Listbox to fulfill different selection needs. For complex selections, Tree Selections is available. In ZK 9, we are glad to introduce a new component – Cascader. Cascader looks like a […]

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Introduction In the previous two articles Rich Web Application with Spring MVC CRUD Demo and  Rich Web Application with Spring MVC CRUD Demo – Part II, we’ve explored the advantages of combining ZK with Spring MVC and the benefits of manipulating the data between Spring MVC and ZK MVVM data binding. In this article, we’ll briefly […]

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Introduction The Spring web MVC framework is a well-known web model-view-controller architecture that provides solutions for RESTFul web sites or for URL routing system purposes. To develop with a rich web application, the most popular pattern in the Java world recently is to choose Spring MVC + jQuery or other JavaScript UI frameworks, such as […]

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Introduction Multi-media applications are becoming more and more common on the web. To satisfy the increasing demand, we are introducing a new component in ZK – ZK Webcam, which communicates with a camera directly based on the  jQuery webcam plugin and also integrating another ZK component, canvas4z for previewing snapshots. By using this component, user […]

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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. The current version supports; 13 different layers including Bing, Google, OSM, WMS 13 different controls including MousePositon, OverviewMap, PanZoom, PanZoomBar, Panel, SelectFeature etc. […]

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Starting from ZK 6, all information, including selection, opened objects, sorting and multiple selection, are now maintained in the model rather than within the components (listbox, combobox, etc.) for providing better flexibility Which means that two components are now able to share a common model. However, in some use cases we may want two components […]

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Unlike page based web applications, Ajax applications tend to present a lot of functionalities within single view without reloading the entire page and thereby avoiding any changes to the browser’s history. This is extremely efficient in delivering page content but at the same time also gives an unique problem to Ajax application developers who wishes […]

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