ZK 3.5.2

Released on December 8, 2008.

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Getting Simpler and Richer

Feature Updates

• 123 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.

What's New

• New Features:
  • 2173627: A way to specify where to gen ZK tags in JSP (incl zul)
  • 2173943: Enhance the generation of noscript (unavailable message)
  • 2188951: Provide layout(template)-injection page composition
  • 2086692: Data binder should have access to the composer
  • 2314150: Execution.isBrowser(type) should be able to detect iphone..
  • 2354640: lang-addon.xml supports library-property
  • 2354769: Add the ZK 3.0.x button mold for ZK 3.5.x
  • 2354768: Add the ZK 3.0.x paging mold for ZK 3.5.x
  • 2368975: Data binder provide getAllBindings() to ease getting all
  • 2386550: ZK Component Interface
• Bug fixes:
  • 2154845: tab switch in Java - setImage makes layout go crazy
  • 2156410: <noscript> shall be placed inside body rather than head (FF)
  • 2162808: False alarm when using xsi:schemaLocation="..."
  • 2163047: Some Zul components fail to clone and serialize
  • 2165067: Fail to remove children via invoking it.previous()
  • 2182062: Scroll button show in nested tabbox
  • 2182111: tab strange when label is null
  • 2188572: forEachStatus sample code does not work
  • 2182972: issue with overlapped window, no title or border
  • 2154611: Menuitem in Menubar - quirks
  • 2197450: getNextSibling() not maintained in root components
  • 2186722: Typo in window code sample
  • 2199361: Failed to create components in Initiator.init()
  • 2198961: AuUploader ignores 'nextURI' parameter
  • 2202620: Comet unable to stop in the comet thread
  • 2208873: fail to loop an array declared in zsciprt using python
  • 2227929: createComponents(String, Map) shall not add to current page
  • 2224964: FileUpload hang in IE on 1st click
  • 2241429: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ZK
  • 2233787: No selected item in radiogroup if select by arrow key
  • 2261249: the bug of Grid with sorting
  • 2280308: WrongValueException message is disappearing...
  • 2280258: Setting the widths property of hbox with splitter is wrong
  • 2308265: forEach doesn't handle boolean array
  • 2313106: Fail to invalidate cmp inside borderlayout if flex=true...
  • 2313445: It looks like strange after invalidate verticle tabs.
  • 2217915: filedownload doesn't work when opera opera 9.5.x
  • 2337652: ID space cleanup problem if not attached to a page
  • 2319972: Tree with checkmarks shows layout quirks
  • 2349456: It's not possible to navigate a listbox with keyboard only
  • 2355376: IE fail in some special case
  • 2241309: Clone component shall clone GenericAutowireComposer as well
  • 2355943: Default content font-family (fontFamilyC) in Linux
  • 2376488: DateBox parsing problem
  • 2383106: Back button and form values reset not recognized
  • 2388345: Defect in use of forEach, arrays and data binding

Upgrade Notes

• getMoldSclass is deprecated and replaced with getZclass since we are going to provide ZK Cascading Classes that allow developers to configure the CSS with the component name.