ZK Developer's Guide/Further Reading

Evironment setup

• Eclipse 3.4 and zul.xsd

Basic Concepts

• Urgent HELP needed: How to open a new browser window which is a new ZK page of my current desktop!

• Pure Java with ZK

Zscript

• The zscript Element
• Zscript, java, EL : useful tricks about zscript
• The variable-resolver Directive : Specifies the variable resolver that will be used by the zscript interpreter to resolve unknown variables.

ZUML Implicit Objects

For more information, please refer to developer's reference. The concept of implicit object is much like *JSP.

• Most used api for Implicit Objects and Static Classes -- includes Executions, Path, Clients

ZUML ZK Attributes

• Difference between use="" and apply=""

• passing params to the controller class

• Accessing EJB from Window controller

• "Extend Window" --- problem

ZUML ZK Elements

• Run ZK Script from JavaScript

Form and Inputs

• onChanging event not everytime fired in Combobox
• Datebox Problem in ZK 3.5.0
• onChange-Event in Textbox doesn't get fired

Layout and Windows

• problem with filfull on Tabpanel
• Generating content in Panels dynamically
• ZK 3.5.0 Tabbox and Listbox weird behavior
• Minimize Panel

Grids, Trees and Listbox

• Live Data, Paging, setModel and Implement your own renderer
• Use Load-On-Demand to Handle Huge Data
• Retrieving selected items from a listBox
• Add rows manually in Live Data grid
• Best practice and performance for menu tree | zul vs. java
• Refresh Listbox Model after button click
• How can i access a dinamyc field in a grid row
• listbox dependent on other listbox
• Scrollable Windows or Grids
• Million Record Challenge
• Listbox not showing data?
• How to capture a grid cell select event?
• How to catch click events on Treeitem
• Listbox forgets checkbox selection
• Listbox problem
• Problem with Listbox selectedItem

Toolbar and Menus

• Popup window with ListCell does know show itself... ???

Wrapped gmaps fckeditor

• Put Google Maps In Your ZK Application

• Behind The Scene: Integrating Google Maps

• Monitor A Telecom Network Graph On Google Maps

• Construct A Telecom Network Graph On Google Maps

• A Telecom Network Graph On Google Maps - Using ZK Google Maps Component

• Integrating FCKeditor

• Using Upload Feature in FCKeditor

Component Events

• How to get the current location (x, y) of mouse cursor?

Data binding

• AnnotateDataBinder very clear explanation of databinding.

• Listbox databinding for ZKmobile cannot find associated CollectionItem
• How do I bind data to a radiogroup?
• Which Components support Databinding?
• Databind and variable in forward
• Databinding with GenericAutowireComposer
• Databinding with radiogroups
• How to trigger binder save without save-when
• Databinding/dynamic listbox dynamic columns
• Classes that extends from AnnotateDataBinderInit are not working to mine
• Tree drag'n drop and binding
• Combobox not binding when cleared
• Constraints and databinding
• Binding Date/Timestamp to Datebox AND Timebox
• Problem with Autobinding and WrongValueException exception
  • To do data validation while Data Binding
• MVC and databinding
  • If model changed after binding, you can use binder.loadAll()
• How to bind a ManyToMany Relation (Jointable) with a multiselect Listbox
• 2 dimensional array in databinding with expressions -- use TypeConverter

• ListModel and Databinding Enhanced Combobox
• Y-Grid Support Drag-Drop and DataBinding
• ZK CRUD Demo Application
• Data Binding Collection Data with ZUML Annotations
• Zero Code Data Binding with ZUML Annotations
• Two-way Data Binding with ZUML Annotations
• Data-Binding Implementation for ZK
• Classes that extends from AnnotateDataBinderInit are not working to mi

Macro Component

• Fellow component not found for included zul file
• Cant create HtmlMacroComponent with java
• Handling events on ZK macro components -- By Felipe Cypriano

Inter page, app communication

• Pass QueryString to ZUL page

• Conceptual question: trouble passing arguments

Style Customization

• ZK/How-Tos/Look-and-Feel

On Width and Percentages*[1]

• Use Theme Tool to Customize your Own Theme
• gray theme
• Changing Component Styles
• How to center a fisheyebar and 'bring it to top'
• Going crazy with width and height
• Multiple lines message text in a Messagebox
• Combobox's border
• zk 3.5.1 css guidance pls
• Linebreak in listbox items
• How to add style to page
• How could I change the style of listbox heade
• Component style change (button and listbox): how to change them?

Live Data, Paging, setModel and Implement your own renderer

• How to realize the idea of live data in a Grid: A smalltalk
• ZK Tree Model: A smalltalk.
• Grid.java: The source code of Grid.java. By tracing it, you'll know how renderer and setModel works, how render() is called, how the model is iterated through visible region. Keyword: render. You may also trace Tree.java and Listbox.java.

• Listbox section in chapter Grids, Trees and Listbox.

• Bug in Grid paging? handleError:1084: A thread in forum.

How to Initialise the Page

• WebAppInit, WebAppCleanup when are the methods called?
• DesktopInit and sendRedirect or Forward

Performance Tip

Discussion of this article: Talk:Performance_tip

• Use Load-On-Demand to Handle Huge Data
• ZK App run slow in a Citrix like environment
• Slow page
• slow performance when dynamic paging
• Best practice and performance for menu tree | zul vs. java
• zkmax - performance enhancement version of ZUL - what does it mean?
• How to testify zk's performance in big project?
• GenericForwardComposer slow when used with ZScript

Security Tip

• Spring Security

• smalltalks about security

Cluster

• How to Run ZK on Apache + Tomcat clustering, Part I
• How to Run ZK on Apache + Tomcat clustering, Part II

MVC in ZK

• ZK With Spring JPA And A Model-View-Controller Pattern

• ZK MVC Made Easy

• Best Model-View-Controller Patterns

• The Trilogy of ZK's MVC Adventure

• Introducing ZK MVC

Browser Management

• Login to UI and log out. Login again, page becomes blank

Client Side Actions

• Clients.java: especially evalJavaScript(java.lang.String javaScript) : Asks the browser to evaluate the specified JavaScript.

• how to pass value from server to client side java script

• Use of comm utility.: an example of triggering an event from Client to Server (browser window onresize method).

• onblur is not working for Button

Long Operations

• zk3.5: Browser window does not work properly if open more than around 5 browser windows

• Server Push + Event in ZK

Hibernate

• Hibernate + ZK
• Hibernate + Spring + ZK
• How to Integrate a Multi-Languages Sign-on System into Your Existing Application : In this smalltalk, it provides a simple example of hibernate.

• Hibernate + ZK: createQuery is not valid without active transaction
• Hibernate Lazy Initialization exception solved by Long Session
• Integration of Spring, Hibernate and ZK causing lazy initialization exception

Spring

• ZK and Spring Security integration- questions

• Using Desktop MVC Patterns with ZK, Spring & JPA

A ZK-hibernate-spring example

• ZK Example Application with: Maven, Spring, Hibernate, Acegi

Developing other backend framework

• zk integration with OfBiz
• How to integrate with OSGi

Integrate with JSF, JSP and Others

• ZK JSF Components 2.0 Released
• Enrich Your JSF Applications with ZK Today!
• Work with Legacy Web Applications, Part II - JSP
• ZK JSP Tag Lib Support Initiator and Annotation
• Use ZK JSP Tags in Your JSP Pages
• New Features of ZK JSP Tags 1.2.0
  • If something not correctly show in IE but works well in Firefox, you should try above solution first.

Portal integration

• ZK Portlet URLs
• Liferay portlet problem.

ZK Mobile

• ZK mobile textbox value

Component life cycle

• Composer

• An Introduction of ZK Composer

• How to refresh component