Getting Simpler and Richer

• To read about the philisophy behind ZK 6.5, please visit this blog

Feature Updates

• 120+ off-the-shelf Ajax components
  • Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, chart, hbox, vbox, window, slider, paging, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
  • Drag-and-drop supported by all components, such that users can drag components and drop them to any other or particular set of components.
  • Context menus and customizable tooltips supported by all components, such that a menu or any popup appears when user click, right-click or move the mouse over a component.
  • Customizable sorting of listbox, grid and children of any component with 100% Java codes (java.lang.Comparator).
  • Auto-completion for combobox.
  • Load on demand with writing Java codes.
  • Live data for listbox.
  • Grids, listboxes and trees with sizable columns.
  • All components are cloneable and serializable.
  • Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular expression and $#,##0.
  • 100% Java API of Google Maps, CKeditor, and Timeline components.
• Event-driven, server-centric model
  • Ajax requests, application notification, and server push are all managed as events
  • Event Queue shields developers from the complexity of Ajax and server push, such as multi-thread programming
  • All events are processed at the server. No hurdle to communicate between clients and servers.
  • All events are synchronized. No racing condition to worry about.
• ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
  • Rich user interface could be designed in ZUML as simple as authoring HTML pages.
  • Powerful yet intuitive control flow by the if, unless and forEach attribute.
  • Scripting in EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.
  • Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
  • Annotations that allow a page to access database with zero Java codes.
• Browser history management.
  • Add states to browser's back button history. Then, users can bookmark and use the back and forward button to navigate different states of the same ZK desktop.
• Simple yet boundless component model.
  • POJO components supporting interfaces and clustering. Easy to instantiate and manipulate directly with pure Java, or injected and managed by an AOP framework, such as Spring
  • Macro components. Develope full-featured new component by using other ZUML pages.
  • Inheritable customization. Developing a new component by extending existent components.
  • Seamlessly and easily to encapsulate pure-client components as ZK components with 100% Java API.
  • Customizing components with pre-compiled Java classes, or by scripting in your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy. The choice is yours.
• Simple yet flexible threading model.
  • Thread-safe component handling.
  • True server-side Modal dialog.
  • Suspend and resume event listeners freely.
• 100% Customizable User-Interface factory.
  • Loading ZUML pages not only from Web contents but also any repository such as database.
  • Customizing the features of sessions, desktops and pages.

What's New

• New Features Tracker
  • ZK-1764: Fileupload.get() supports to provide a callback event listener
  • ZK-1801: provide fusion funnel chart integration
  • ZK-1819: ValidationContext support a new flag that can identify the value of single field whether is valid when use form binding
  • ZK-1825: Timebox should not reset the date value to today
• Bugs fixed
  • ZK-1234: Odd and Even background color not working on grid within a panel within another grid
  • ZK-1284: Grid/Listbox header and content horizontal synchronization in IE browser.
  • ZK-1526: layouts and containers should not take menupopup into account when computing padding
  • ZK-1578: window hflex="min" not work
  • ZK-1642: Tree columns width not expanding if scrollbar without hflex
  • ZK-1647: Tree with hflex'ed and width'ed treecols doesn't work properly
  • ZK-1691: Dropupload has "native" property (reserved identifier in EL)
  • ZK-1692: widget.isVisible API doesn't work properly
  • ZK-1693: Dial chart customize color issues
  • ZK-1698: MVVM Tree Performance Issue
  • ZK-1699: Performance issue ZK-Bind getters are called multiple times
  • ZK-1701: Message for file upload is not good enough in German
  • ZK-1702: Invoke binder.loadAll() when the onChange event of the combobox will cause java error
  • ZK-1704: NullPointerException when sorting a list model bound to a Grid without a Columns component
  • ZK-1705: NullPointerException when sorting a list model bound to a Listbox without a Listhead component
  • ZK-1706: hflex does not work properly inside a Toolbar component
  • ZK-1708: Clients.showNotification doesn't work when using auto mode include component
  • ZK-1711: Chosenbox's model will be set to null after invalidate the Chosenbox's parent
  • ZK-1712: The disabled date in the databox shall not be selected when navigate to the different month
  • ZK-1714: Databinding 1 cannot clear selection item
  • ZK-1715: The disabled listitem shall not be selected when use SHIFT + DOWN key with a paging listbox
  • ZK-1718: Datebox's calendar does not disable the date after costraint date if the "before yyyymmdd" is not at the first place of the constraint attribute
  • ZK-1720: XSS Vulnerability for fileupload
  • ZK-1723: component width not set in html when using hflex and resizing parent component
  • ZK-1724: fileupload error "contentId is required!"
  • ZK-1726: Treeitem update - infinite loop - browser freeze
  • ZK-1728: Invisible Comboitems are selectable with cursor keys
  • ZK-1732: Setting visible to true to a listbox, which is inside a hlayout, do not work after zk6.5.2
  • ZK-1733: Tree item - children losing parent after updating parent
  • ZK-1735: Tree overlaps parent container, after update
  • ZK-1736: Cannot paste into an intbox and decimalbox on Mac Safari
  • ZK-1737: Typo in some zk.fmt.Number functions: varStr (wrong) vs valStr (right)
  • ZK-1739: treenodes disappearing on frequent updates
  • ZK-1740: Navigating a Listbox using keyboard (pgup/pgdn) throws "Out of bound" exception
  • ZK-1748: Stackup and autohide not working
  • ZK-1765: Add new Tree node cause Null Pointer Exception
  • ZK-1766: tree bulk-update to several nodes causing errors
  • ZK-1768: Retrieve a wrong selected index of the radiogroup, when grid model changed
  • ZK-1784: client rod with hflex cause js error
  • ZK-1785: Tabbox (accordion) : selecting and removing a tab results in wrong node being opened
  • ZK-1787: When the viewModel tell binder to reload a list, the other component that bind a bean in the list will reload again
  • ZK-1791: @global-command does not provide predefined "event" variable
  • ZK-1793: Grid with hidden header flickering back and forth when you scroll horizontally.
  • ZK-1794: dropupload setNative() method does smartupdate on "naitve" instead of "native
  • ZK-1795: MVVM netsed template may cause exception
  • ZK-1797: A js error happen while to rsFocus a button in a popup in window
  • ZK-1803: Setting a textbox visible=false and invalidate its parent leading to "Failed to mount" error in Firefox
  • ZK-1804: Calendar should not be able to select year less than 1900 or greater than 2099
  • ZK-1808: Close tabpanel cause js error
  • ZK-1812: zAu.send: data of client event ignored on server side
  • ZK-1821: Component inside native component doesn't cleanup correctly
  • ZK-1822: Turkish locale problem during browser detection (on server side)
  • ZK-1827: Component inside native component js error
  • ZK-1834: Listbox scroll bug