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Help-New User to ZK

prabhathks
16 Aug 2011 03:17:56 GMT
16 Aug 2011 03:17:56 GMT

Hello,
I am a GWT developer with extGwt as extension and been writing codes in Java(Java over GWT).I am pretty new to ZK framework and I'm not good in HTML and ZUL,my question is whether I will be able to implement ZK over Java(ie whether I can code using java in ZK)?Please help me out!

twiegandTop Contributor
17 Aug 2011 11:45:08 GMT
17 Aug 2011 11:45:08 GMT

prabhathks,

Welcome to ZK.

Since ZK is a Java-based framework, you can certainly code your application in Java.  You can choose the balance of ZUL (ZK's XML-based markup language) and straight Java that makes you comfortable - all the way to generating everything in Java if you so desire.  Based on experience however, I would suggest that you let the framework do as much work as possible.  ZK is very powerful and while you can do everything yourself, you lose the advantages of having the framework in place if you go down that path.  Hardly any of my team is strong in HTML (they are used to being back-end Java developers) but with ZK, they don't have to be.

Hope that helps,

Todd