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 second in a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. To check out main features please click here. One of the best user driven features in the upcoming release of ZK 6.0 RC is the navigation of the “Menubar” using the “KeyStroke” method making it more user friendly. […]

We are always being asked about our environment setup within the ZK office and how to setup a ZK environment. First of all this blog will cover the typical development environment of a ZK developer. It will not cover setting up an environment to develop ON ZK, at least not yet. So without further ado […]

The ZUL Testing Language(ZTL) has been available for one year and during this time we have looked into improving the verification of layout placement, which is hard to verify its correctness. This led to the idea of a visual test is come up to solve the problem…

Most Ajax pages are not SEO friendly, so the natural question is how to implement this in ZK. The question is also applies if your ZK application works using a Bookmark mechanism. You can implement SEO in an easy manner following these two steps…

The time for the user group is drawing near and I have been overwhelmed by the positive responses I have received from all of you. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the event. Recently I have been busy arranging the event and decided to bring you all news of what is going to be presented.

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.

ZK composite is a concept in which we design a customized component based on a template zul file we composed (like a ZK Macro component); however, unlike a Macro component, developers could include other children components within a ZK composite.

We are pleased to announce the introduction of two new components, hlayout and vlayout which enable you to layout your page in an easier and more controllable manner.

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 […]