ZK 3.0.8

Released on October 8, 2008.

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Getting Simpler and Richer

Feature Updates

• 89 XUL and 83 HTML off-the-shelf 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, FCKeditor, DOJO, and Timeline components.
• Event-driven, server-centric model
  • More than 20 events are supported: onChange, onChanging, onScroll, onSelect, onShow, onZIndex...
  • 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 acess 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.
  • Macro components. Developing a full-feature new component by using another 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.

New Features

• 2045837: PerformanceMeter adds the time after updating all components
• 2052603: A way to proxy ComponentInfo with ComposerExt
• 2045810: AnnotatedDataBinderInit accept relative path in arg0
• 2060367: More neat startup log for ignorable errors
• 2066299: fulfill: fire onFulfill after fulfilling the children
• 2092356: Unwrap ForwardEvent automatically in GenericEventListener
• 2094526: Components.wireVariables() shall wire implicit objects
• 2117539: Support Session Fixation Protection
• 2114380: Filedownload bug with WebSphere 5.1.1
• 2099562: [Opera] progressbar flattened when value = zero
• 2139857: Components.addForward shall handle cascade $ name pattern

Bug Fixes

• 2051014: NPE error with ZK + Tomcat Clusteriing
• 2056760: Fail to change the width of Listbox
• 2051639: Data binding longbox does not work
• 2037288: Clustering failed with AnnotateDataBinder
• 2041347: F1 key not overridden correctly in IE
• 2071996: Selection on a paged Listbox doesn't work an last page
• 2077739: Events.addEventListeners() cause Exception in onEvent()
• 2077792: GenericAutowireComposer shall support implicit objects "arg"
• 2041674: Menubar popup disappears with disabled menuitem
• 2080237: A disabled Menuitem with href can link to the href location
• 2080346: Onchaning evt of combobox wrongly includes type-ahead string
• 2075332: Paginated listbox doesn't expand properly inside a BL(IE)
• 2079837: Timebox behaves wrongly if there is scrollbar
• 2081560: Unresponsive script warning when changing big ListModel
• 2086020: onchanging event of combobox didn't fired properly
• 2086350: Select a nested listbox that should not throw a exception
• 2072856: Error scroll bar is shown on the validation message(IE 7)
• 2088269: radiogroup wouldn't work before ZK finish loading
• 2090731: Button... unable to setImage if setImageContent was called
• 2092632: Session.invalidate causes an exception in Jetty
• 2092716: Desktop.isAlive always true
• 2080346: onchaning evt of combox wrongly includes type-ahead string
• 2079837: Timebox behaves wrongly if there is scrollbar
• 2082896: ZK conflicts with Liferay 5.1.1
• 2088712: separator with bar & spacing=1px not show in IE
• 2094523: Components.wireFellows() shall wire fellows then ancentors
• 2111320: Borderlayout in tabpanel invisible
• 2105802: Treechildren image problem
• 2116547: The Slider image problem in listbox
• 2125788: Hilighted window covered by mask when change title
• 2124391: Tree, attribute sequence cause wrong result
• 2128058: Fails to change the visibility of Border Region dynamically
• 2129730: databinding fails to process access='none'
• 2129992: TypeConverter cannot be found by databind if in zscript
• 2138131: GenericForwardComposer throw Exception if component inexist
• 2140491: Set "save-when" in Listbox selectedItem does not trigger
• 2143479: Failed to invoke sendRedirect or forward in DesktopInit

Upgrade Notes

• onBookmarkChanged is renamed to onBookmarkChange
• org.zkoss.zkplus.databind.AnnotateDataBinderInit now implements both org.zkoss.zk.ui.util.Initiator and org.zkoss.zk.ui.util.InitiatorExt interfaces. That is, the original interface method doAfterCompose(Page page) of Initiator won't be called any more. Rather, the doAfterCompose(Page page, Component[] comps) of InitiatorExt is called. If you have written own class that extends AnnotateDataBinderInit and overrides doAfterCompose(Page page) method of Initiator, you probably have to do some modification accordingly.