What's New

• New Features
  • ZK-2582: Allow specification of Priority for SelectorComposer's @Listen() Annotation
  • ZK-3086: Users can customize file size exceeding message for Dropupload
  • ZK-3098: Add onItemClick event to Chosenbox
  • ZK-3100: Support a way to customize classloading
  • ZK-3105: Users can specify uploading target path
  • ZK-3132: Make AuUploader and AuDropUploader can be extended and overridden
  • ZK-3133: Support a Match Media annotation for MVVM to use
  • ZK-3134: Provide configurable defaults to be be ignored in form proxies
  • ZK-3142: Apply, updated Russian i18n
  • ZK-3157: Library property support "name" - "values"
  • ZK-3161: Title / caption / icon for collapsed LayoutRegion in BorderLayout
  • ZK-3166: BorderLayout slide action server-side support
  • ZK-3185: Enable form validation with reference and collection binding
  • ZK-3188: Implement configurable ajax-timeout/retry/retry-delay for Comet serverpush
  • ZK-3206: Support metaKey for MouseEvent
• Bugs Fixed
  • ZK-3068: A toolbar with a toolbarbutton does not count as a focusable control when giving focus to the first element of a modal window
  • ZK-3069: tabindex=0 is not passed to the widgets associated dom element
  • ZK-3073: [JBoss Wildfly] Unknown listener: class org.zkoss.zuti.bind.ZutiPhaseListener
  • ZK-3082: Chosenbox onSearching does not fire with an empty value
  • ZK-3083: NPE at VisibilityChangeEvent
  • ZK-3084: An EL in a command binding cannot access "event" object
  • ZK-3094: Scrollable menubar body is not properly resized after container resizing.
  • ZK-3095: Menubar ignore menuitem margin when calculating scrollable status.
  • ZK-3097: Serialization issue: org.zkoss.zhtml.impl.AbstractTag$EncodedURL is not serializeable
  • ZK-3099: error message positioning when using ca:data-scrollable
  • ZK-3102: Combopopup wrong position
  • ZK-3103: listbox setSelectedIndex does not scroll selected item into view
  • ZK-3104: jsonBindingParam-converter interfering with "normal" @BindingParams
  • ZK-3106: template injection doesn't work with the nested template
  • ZK-3107: error when using @DependsOn
  • ZK-3110: CollectionTemplate is hiding outer template
  • ZK-3111: Message code not found in msgzul
  • ZK-3113: setting int property causes NPE
  • ZK-3114: Chosenbox should clean selections after set new model
  • ZK-3115: macro components adding inline-styles
  • ZK-3117: Selection bug on listbox using checkmarkDeselectOthers functionality
  • ZK-3118: processing mask cause a js missing error exception when target component is not rendered.
  • ZK-3120: IE 8 switches to compatibility mode on popup open
  • ZK-3123: File not found when loading external resource in a jar file
  • ZK-3131: protocol relative URL erroneously prefixed with current context path
  • ZK-3136: Textbox binding * fails
  • ZK-3137: an icon in a menupopup is not well aligned horizontally
  • ZK-3139: maximizable and minimizable buttons in panel have the same tooltip
  • ZK-3140: Textbox text selection in draggable row unavailable in Firefox
  • ZK-3143: Mesh element with multiple selection text content gets selected when using ctrl click or shift click on IE11
  • ZK-3145: Chosenbox focus() does not give focus to the input field
  • ZK-3146: file upload error when detaching parent component
  • ZK-3147: The margin should not increase a component's width with hflex="min"
  • ZK-3149: FormBinding on Hibernate Entity causes: RTE: "duplicate method: setHandler"
  • ZK-3152: Listbox can render changed items only when ROD is enabled
  • ZK-3154: autopaging will activate paging mold on first load if the content is just fit for default mold
  • ZK-3158: Shadow Element NPE when setting on a parent outside of a page
  • ZK-3165: draggable treeitems fire onSelect too early in IE
  • ZK-3167: A Textbox's onChange doesn't fire when it's inside a draggable Row
  • ZK-3168: Chosenbox doesn't send onSelectSubModel direcly to the server using ListSubModel
  • ZK-3169: Invalidate on a parent of chosenbox causes selection to disappear using listsubmodel
  • ZK-3170: Opened treeitem set disabled while not visible causes child treeitems to be removed from the DOM tree
  • ZK-3173: listmodel.clear() does not reset listmodel.getActivePage()
  • ZK-3175: JS error on text selection after d&d
  • ZK-3182: The label key is resolved differently in a <template> between the one inside a Grid and outside
  • ZK-3184: ScrollIntoView does not apply recursively
  • ZK-3193: bandbox unexpected onChanging event in FF
  • ZK-3195: Firefox Drag n Drop doesn't give "droppable" status after bugfix 3140
  • ZK-3196: form binding: doesn't save property when it's a proxy object
  • ZK-3202: Spinner custom constraint error message broken
  • ZK-3207: Clients.resize() keeps increasing a component's height with vflex="min"
  • ZK-3208: Using a custom paging with a mesh component in MVVM cause ListModelList pageSize to be reset
  • ZK-3210: Spinner custom constraint error message partially wrong
• Upgrade Notes
• Remove the method getOptionId(Object) in Chosenbox.java
• Moved all getter and setter of tabindex to root component HtmlBasedComponent.java to match the spec of html5
• Remove FormProxyObjectChangeListener.java and addFormProxyObjectListener(FormProxyObjectListener) in FormProxyObject.java

Key Features

• 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.