ZK Features & Editions

Architectural
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Server+client fusion
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Server-side component based and event driven
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Client-side widget and control in object oriented jQuery
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UI declaration in ZUML (ZUL)
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UI programming in Java
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Model-driven UI and programming-free data binding
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MVC, (Server) MVVM
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Client MVVM
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Stateless Components for Cloud-native Apps
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Multiple presentations and 100% CSS based styling
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Polymorphic components and recursive composition
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Transparent Ajax and JSON
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Websocket
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Clustering, failover, cloud, Ajax-as-a-Service
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Data binding and annotations
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Data binding: reference binding
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Data binding: application-level converter & validator
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Data binding: form bean validator
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EventQueue autowiring
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MVVM support at the client
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BindingParam annotation supports converting from JSON to POJO automatically
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Data attribute handler
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Responsive Design & Components
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Responsive Design & Touch Event Support1
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Responsive components
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Touch experience enhancements: Scrollview and Cardlayout
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Web Accessibility
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Accessibility support
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Theming
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CSS3 & LESS based
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ZK Theme Pack
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ZK Theme Pack - compact
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ZK Theme Pack - accessibility-ready
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Atlantic Theme
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Polymorphic Functionality
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Context menu, tooltip and popup
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Drag and drop
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Hflex and Vflex
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Mouse-less entry and navigation
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Layout injection and templating
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Layout & Window
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Windows (modal, pop-up, overlapped, embedded, minimized, maximized, draggable, sizable, messagebox…)
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Panel (embedded, overlapped, minimized, maximized, draggable...)
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Macro and composite components
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Hbox, Vbox, Hlayout, Vlayout, Splitter
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Tabbox (accordion, horizontal/vertical layout, lightweight…)
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Groupbox (3D, legend…)
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Borderlayout
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Anchorlayout
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Absolutelayout
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Notification
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Columnlayout
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Goldenlayout
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Portallayout
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Tablelayout
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Splitlayout
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Linelayout
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Drawer
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Caption (Tabbox, Borderlayout)
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Shadow Components
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Scrollview component
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Rowlayout
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Toast
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Grid & Tree
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Grid, Listbox, Tree
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Paging (nested, one-to-many...)
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Column menu, sorting, frozen column, checkmark
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Live model-driving Grid, Tree...
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Grouping
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Master-detail
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Organigram
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Biglistbox
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Toolbar & Menu
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Menu (image, label, file upload, and arbitrary HTML content)
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Toolbar (file upload and arbitrary toolbar buttons)
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Hyperlink and redirect
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Fisheye menu
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Anchornav
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Navigation Component
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Stepbar
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Coachmark
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Form & Input
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Server side validation
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Client side validation
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Combobox, Bandbox…
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Selectbox, Checkbox (normal, toggle, switch, tri-state)
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Number input (BigDecimal, double, int)
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Datebox, Timebox, Calendar
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Slider, Spinner, Progressbar
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HTML5 Input Element & Placeholder
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Rating
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Inputgroup
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Captcha
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Color picker
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Rangeslider
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Chosenbox
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Lightweight rich editor Tbeditor
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Signature
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Slider Knob
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Multislider
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Timepicker Component
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Cascader
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Searchbox
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Data & Report
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Integrate JFreeChart (2D/3D, bar, pie, stock, dial, gantt…)
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ZK Charts2
Integrate JasperReports (PDF/Excel/ODT/XML/HTML... export)
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Google Maps11
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XML generator
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ZK Calendar
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ZK Spreadsheet (now Keikai Spreadsheet)2
ZK Pivottable2
Ajax Push
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Transparent server push with inter-session event queue
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Server push - Client Polling
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Server push - Comet
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Server push - Servlet 3 Asynchronous Comet
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Websocket
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Inter-session sharable live data
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Web Technology Integration
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Integrate Java EE, Hibernate, JPA, JDBC, TopLink, JNDI, Acegi
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Integrate Spring - Variable Resolver
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Integrate Spring - Customized ZK Scopes
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Integrate Spring Security
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Embed to HTML, JSP, JSF...
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Include HTML, JSP, JSF...
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Run as JSP tags
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Run as Portlet
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Fragment Component
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Font Awesome and Stacked Font Awesome Support
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Source Map for WPD
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HTML5 browser history management, Inter-iframe browser history management
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Bookmarking
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Animation
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Slide, fade, drop, and all kind of jQuery animation
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Drag-and-drop, drag-and-size
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Loadingbar
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Multimedia & Utilities
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Multiple built-in themes: iceblue, iceblue-compact, breeze, silvertail, sapphire...
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Fully customizable file upload
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HTML5 Audio component
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HTML5 file upload file type control
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HTML5 drag & drop local file upload
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Dynamic image, audio, iframe…
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Timer, piggyback, echo back, asynchronous event queue
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Filedownload
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PDFViewer
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Video, Camera
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Barcode, Barcode Scanner
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Resumable Filedownload
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Image Cropper
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iFrame intercommunication
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Google Analytics support
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Indexable by search engines
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Performance & Reliability
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Batch request optimizer
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Network error handling and auto-recovering
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End-to-end performance monitoring
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Access statistic monitoring
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On-demand server-side fulfill
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Performance boost (view report)3
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On-demand client widget rendering
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On-demand model rendering
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Desktop and component reuse
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Request auto-resend and recover mechanism
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Server-side memory optimization
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MVVM performance optimization
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Performance boost by Shadow Components
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Application Security
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No business logic exposure at client
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XSS and DoS protection
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Non-repeatable request pattern
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Inaccessible UI protection
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Script & Expressions
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Script in Java
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Script in Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Python
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Expression in EL 3.0
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Expression in MVEL, OGNL
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Internationalization
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I18N labels, number format and date format
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Per-user labels, number format and date format
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26+ language translations
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Supported Browsers
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Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS Safari, Opera…
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Supported Servers
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Servlet 2.3, 2.4... including Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, WebShpere, GlassFish, WebLogic, Oracle WebLogic…
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JSR 168/286 compatible portal, including Jetspeed 2, Liferay, WebSphere Portal, Pluto…
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JRE/JDK 5, 6, 7, 8...6
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Supported IDE & Tools
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Eclipse, MyEclipse, NetBeans, IBM RAD, BEA Workshop, Oracle JDeveloper…
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Grinder, JUnit, Selenium, HP LoadRunner, JMeter
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SLF4J based logging
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ZK Studio
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ZATS Mimic
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ZK Browser Support8

Internet Explorer 8
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Internet Explorer 9+
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Edge
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Firefox
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Chrome
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Safari
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iOS Safari1
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Chrome for Mobile1
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Opera
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ZK JDK Support9

ZK 8.6 and earlier versions require at least Java SE 6; ZK 9 requires at least Java SE8; ZK 10 requires at least Java SE11; they work with higher versions that are binary-compatible with the official Oracle JDK 1.6, 1.8, and 1.11 respectively. If you run into any ZK issues relating to Java upgrade please report to us.

Notes

  • 1.
    Due to the technology or the 3rd party library used, the following components have limited support for responsive and tablet/touch devices: 3rd party-based components (ex. ZK JasperReport); ZK Calendar; ZK Pivottable; ZK Spreadsheet (Keikai) and ZK File Upload.
  • 2.
    ZK Spreadsheet (Keikai Spreadsheet), ZK Pivottable, and ZK Charts are available as add-ons. They are not part of CE, PE, EE
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    ZK Fushionchart has now entered maintenance mode as of Q2, 2014 as the 3rd party library that it's based on - FusionCharts free, has moved out of flash and stopped supporting it.
  • 5.
    Android native browsers may behave differently depending on the device it is on and its version.
  • 6.
    ZK Studio and ZK Spreadsheet (Keikai) requires version 6.
  • 7.
    ZK Timeline/Timplot has now entered maintenance mode as of Q3, 2014 as the 3rd party library that it's based on SIMILE Widgets, has stopped any activities.
  • 8.
    This list demonstrates the supported browsers of ZK Framework. Other products such as ZK Pivottable and ZK Spreadsheet (Keikai) may support a different set of browsers. For detailed information please refer to each product's documentation.
  • 9.
    ZK 8 and lower versions works with JDK 1.6 (and higher). ZK 9 works with JDK 1.8 and higher. However not all JDK features (e.g. Module System since JDK 9) are available. Please contact us if you are interested in any specific feature.
  • 10.
    A certain components rely on modern technologies such as HTML5 and CSS Flex, these components will only work with modern browsers that are compatible with these new technologies and will not work with legacy browsers like IE9 and IE10. Please check Component Reference for details.
  • 11.
    ZK provides a wrapper for developers to use Google Maps in ZK easily. Developers need to obtain their own Google Maps API Key.