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 […]

At the end of last year, ZK entered the third-party libraries category for Dr Dobbs’ Jolt Awards. The Jolt Awards recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products and honour products that are universally useful, simple, yet rich in functionality, or that redefine their product space. As competitive as it is, we are proud to announce […]

Release Date: March 08, 2012 ZK Spring 3.1 is a maintenance release mainly focusing on fixing bugs and upgrading compatibility to fully support ZK 6. GenericSpringComposer has also been deprecated as it has been identified to cause potential problems under various application servers. Users are suggested to use SelectorComposer in ZK 6 and GenericFowardComposer in […]

This blog post is the forth of a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. To check out main features please click here. Chosenbox is another new add-on component that comes with ZK6 which acts like a Combobox with the additional ability to select multiple items inside the box. Chosenbox supports ListSubModel, and […]

Joonas Javanainen Software developer, runs Jawsy Solutions 7 years programming experience Career mostly involved with JVM-based languages (Java, Scala) but also experienced in dynamic (PHP, Python, Ruby) and C/C++ programming Favourite programming language is Scala, also interested in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Erlang and Clojure Q: How many years have you been using […]

Stefano Bianchi Research Team Leader, Research & Innovation Division at Softeco Sismat Obtained Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Genoa in 2002 10 years experience in EC-funded/national/regional research & innovation projects Projects are mainly semantic-based knowledge and content management in advanced Java-based technology web applications (J2EE, JSP/Servlet, JSF, Ajax RIA) Q: Firstly, please […]

In ZK 6 RC, we introduced various new features including ZK Bind, Generic enhancements, jQuery & CSS3 style server-side selectors, advanced templates etc. Thanks to the enthusiastic response and feedback from the community, as of the release of ZK 6 RC2, we are able to make some changes to suit and serve the needs of […]

Time is ticking away and the 3 user groups are nearly upon us so it time to release the agenda. Just a note that even though the designated time for finishing is 6pm, I will be around after that time for as long as I can to take any questions anyone has. I am really […]

Hello Everyone, When you feel the chill in the air, the time of the year has arrived again; ZK is now 6 years old. For the past 6 years, we have been able to steadily improve ourselves bringing ZK framework to reach higher stability, accessibility and usability thanks to the huge support and effort contributed […]

This blog post is the third in a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. For the main features please click here. In ZK 6.0, we introduce a new simple feature on Datebox and Timebox: with a javascript handler specified in zk.xml, you can provide text shortcuts on date and time input. Here […]