Packing as a Jar

Jar Files

Packing a component as a Jar file will make it easy to deployment, this article is telling you steps and requirements of it.


File Structure /META-INF/ MANIFEST.MF /metainfo/ mesg/ msg<jar name>.properties(optional) msg<jar name>_<locale>.properties (optional ...) xml/ <component-name>.xsd (optional) zk/ lang.xml (optional) lang-addon.xml (optional) File descriptions /META-INF/ MANIFEST.MF The file for jar defino /metainfo/ mesg/ msg<jar name>.properties These files are i18n resource files,you can define with the locale you want , the default file is msg<jar name>.properties. [ZK Internationalization] xml/ <component-name>.xsd The xml schema for component tags in zul tld config.xml For taglibs definition. (ex. zweb.jar use this for dsp.) zk/ lang.xml The language definition file with namespace (ex. http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml for zhtml) lang-addon.xml The language add-on define components with specific language. At least it should contains one lang.xml or lang-addon.xml.	The example from zul.jar


File Structure /package-folder classes File descriptions The java classes of component. just like normal jar file.	The example from zul.jar


File Structure /web/ js/ component-package/ mold/ <widget-mold-js-file> css/ <widget-css-dsp-file> (optional) <widget-css-file> (optional) <widget-class-js-file> /zk.wpd File descriptions /web/ js/ <component-package>/ mold/ <widget-mold-js-file> (ex. simple-label.js ) Widget mold file , you can write widget's html with javascript function here. css/ <widget-css-dsp-file> (ex. simple-label.css.dsp ) The css dsp files ,in the dsp you can use some variable with zk enviroment to write it. <widget-css-file> (ex. simple-label.css ) the pure css files. <widget-class-file> (ex. Simple-label.js) The widget class you write . zk.wpd Define your component's package and widgets here, and the dependency with other package.	Example for box from zul.jar


File Structure /web/ <component-package> / (optional) css /(optional) <css files>(optional) zk.wcs(optional) img /(optional) <img files>(optional) File descriptions /web/ <component-package>/ css/ <css files> For some static css file you might need. zk.wcs Let you can config the CSS file for particular language img/ <img files> This is a folder for some image files , and you can access them in xxx.css.dsp files through ${c:encodeURL('~./img/<component-package>/xxx.png')}	Example from zul.jar

Last Update : 2010/09/20