Environment setup

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Configuration files you should know

ZKoss has provided Configuration files for most common use cases. In most case, you simply copy and paste it.

web.xml:

To develop a Web application with ZK, you have to configure servlets, listeners and an optional filter to web.xml. It is also know as Deployment Descriptor.

zk.xml:

zk.xml is the configuration descriptor of ZK. This file is optional. If you need to configure ZK differently from the default, you could provide a file called zk.xml under the WEB-INF directory.

For detail explanation of web.xml, zk.xml, please refer to the ZK Configuration Reference

When you use other back-end frameworks like hibernate, you have to modify zk.xml as well. Also, ZKoss has provided reference zk.xml. You can simply copy and paste it.

See Also

From ZK Forum:

Eclipse 3.4 and zul.xsd

Quiz

1. A plugin for FireFox is a must have debug tool. What is it?
2. What's the visual editor plugin provides by ZKoss?
3. What's the two configuration files you should know?