Development-time Best Practices

There are several settings below we recommend you to specify during development time that can improve your developer experience. They can show you more debugging information and reload a zul page to get the latest change without restarting a server.

Separate zk.xml for Developement

    <library-property>
        <name>org.zkoss.zk.config.path</name>
        <value>/WEB-INF/zk-dev.xml</value>
    </library-property>

zk-dev.xml

	<system-config>
		<disable-zscript>false</disable-zscript>
	</system-config>
	<!-- show debug information -->
	<client-config>
		<debug-js>true</debug-js>
	</client-config>
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.zk.ui.versionInfo.enabled</name>
		<value>true</value>
	</library-property>
	<!-- disable various caches -->
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.zk.ZUML.cache </name>
		<value>false</value>
	</library-property>
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.zk.WPD.cache</name>
		<value>false</value>
	</library-property>
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.zk.WCS.cache</name>
		<value>false</value>
	</library-property>
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.web.classWebResource.cache</name>
		<value>false</value>
	</library-property>
	<library-property>
		<name>org.zkoss.util.label.cache</name>
		<value>false</value>
	</library-property>