Introduction We introduced a new ZK-Less Engine built on Node.js in the release of ZK 7.0.3. The new Engine will have a much faster compiling speed. You will need to install Node.js in your environment in order to use it.  If you have not tried ZK-Less features yet, please take a quick look at How […]

Introduction Using ZK Charts allows you to create charts based on your own data in a much efficient way than before. In this blog, we will show you how you can paint the time plot chart using ZK Charts instead of the SIMILE Timeplot Component. Installation ZK Charts version: 1.2.0+ If you are not familiar […]

Introduction ZK 7 is an upcoming big release focusing on HTML5 & CSS3. Simplified by reducing the DOM structure and JavaScript code, ZK 7’s theme will be more easily customizable than previous versions and its JavaScript code running more efficiently than ever. ZK 7 will also support CSS3’s icon font feature bringing the great benefits […]

Introduction Previously, Dennis Chen shared a small talk illustrating how you can execute a loading test with ZK applications using JMeter. Now, in this blog we will introduce how you can use ZK JMeter Plugin to simplify your work. With this JMeter Plugin, you no longer have to set user variables or parameter for each zkau request […]

IntroductionMacro component is a useful technique to modularize complex ZUL pages. In most use cases, macro component consists of several fixed components. However, you may want to append more components inside a macro component based on some action. This blog will show how you can add additional components to a wired component inside a macro […]

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 […]

We have released the following ZK products for maintenance purposes and/or ZK 6.5 support. ZK Spring 3.1.1 Maintenance release to support Spring Security 3.1 along with a few bug fixes Check out release note or download. ZK JSP 2.2 Maintenance release to support all versions of ZK 6 Download ZK Gmaps 3.0.1 Maintenance bug fix […]

Introduction The Web and mobile development market are growing rapidly with more and more enterprises needing a strong presence on both platforms. This leads to a need for significant time and money investment creating applications which fulfil the needs of both platforms. Most vendors provide separate component set for touch devices does not alleviate the […]

Introduction In the upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component called ‘Cardlayout’ enabling end-users to switch components like switching cards. On tablet, this navigation operation is supported by simply swiping through components. Check out the demo below to see how it works exactly! Live Demo Implementation Like HBox or Hlyout, developers can add […]

Introduction When applying a new look and feel for ZK components, developers need to go through various steps from designing new style component images, cropping those images following ZK theme rule to preparing several CSS files in order to create and apply a new theme. ZK Online Themer, also known as the ThemeRoller is an […]