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EE |
| Architectural |
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, MVVM |
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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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| 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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| Responsive Design & Components |
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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Polymorphic Functionality |
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 |
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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| Portallayout |
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| Tablelayout |
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| Grid & Tree |
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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| Biglistbox |
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| Toolbar & Menu |
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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Form & Input |
Server side validation |
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| Client side validation |
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| Combobox, Bandbox… |
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| Selectbox |
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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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| Captcha2
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| Color picker |
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| Chosenbox |
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| Data & Report |
Flash Chart |
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| Integrate JFreeChart (2D/3D, bar, pie, stock, dial, gantt…) |
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| Fusion Chart |
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| Integrate JasperReports (PDF/Excel/ODT/XML/HTML... export) |
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| MIT Timeline |
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| MIT Timeplot |
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| Google Maps |
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| XML generator |
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| ZK Calendar |
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| ZK Spreadsheet3
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| ZK Pivottable3 |
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| Ajax Push |
Transparent server push with inter-session event queue |
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| Server push - Client Polling |
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| Server push - Comet4
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| Server push - Servlet 3 Asynchronous Comet |
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| Inter-session sharable live data |
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Web Technology Integration |
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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| Integrate Spring Web Flow |
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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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Animation |
Slide, fade, drop, and all kind of jQuery animation |
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| Drag-and-drop, drag-and-size |
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| Bookmarking/history management (inter-iframe supported) |
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Multimedia & Utilities |
Multiple built-in themes: breeze, silvertail, sapphire... |
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| Fully customizable file upload |
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| HTML5 drag & drop local file upload |
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| Dynamic image, audio, flash, iframe… |
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| Timer, piggyback, echo back, asynchronous event queue |
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| Filedownload |
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| Resumable Filedownload |
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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 |
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)5 |
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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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| Application Security |
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 |
Script in Java |
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| Script in Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Python |
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| Expression in EL |
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| Expression in MVEL, OGNL |
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| Internationalization |
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 |
Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS Safari, Opera, Opera Mini… |
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| Supported Servers |
Servlet 2.3, 2.4... including Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, WebShpere, GlassFish, WebLogic, Oracle WebLogic… |
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| JSR 168 compatible portal, including Jetspeed 2, Liferay, WebSphere Portal, Pluto… |
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| JRE/JDK 1.4, 5, 6... |
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| Supported IDE & Tools |
Eclipse, MyEclipse, NetBeans, IBM RAD, BEA Workshop, Oracle JDeveloper… |
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| Grinder, JUnit, Selenium, HP LoadRunner, JMeter |
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| ZK Studio |
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| ZATS Mimic |
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ZK - Open Source Java Web Framework