Create and Run Your First ZK Application Manually"
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Revision as of 08:06, 17 December 2010
Prepare the server
Install Tomcat
First, you have to prepare a Web server. You can use any Web server that supports Java Servlet (2.3 or later). Here we introduced the installation of Tomcat. For other servers and more information, please refer to Setting up Servers.
- Visit Tomcat Official Site
- Select the correct binary distribution for your environment and download
- For Windows, you might download and execute 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer, and then follow the instructions
- Any download/install problem, please refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/index.html
Download ZK Libraries
ZK libraries (Now is zk-bin-5.0.4.zip) could be downloaded from ZK Download and save it to a proper location.
Create your first application
Here shows you how to create a web application manually without IDE or other tools.
Create Web application
ZK Web Applications use a standard directory structure defined in the Servlet specification.
When developing ZK web applications, you must follow this structure so that application can be deployed in any J2EE compliant web server.
All you need to do is create a web application directory with related files.
- Now i create one for example named myZK
Install Library Distribution
- Unzip zk-bin-5.0.4.zip
- Copy JAR files under following list to myZK/WEB-INF/lib
- {YOUR_ZK_UNZIP_FOLDER}/dist/lib
- {YOUR_ZK_UNZIP_FOLDER}/dist/lib/ext
- {YOUR_ZK_UNZIP_FOLDER}/dist/lib/zkforge
Create Deployment Descriptor(Web.xml)
web.xml is called the web application deployment descriptor. This is a XML file that defines servlets, servlet mappings, listeners, filters, welcome files etc.
Deployment descriptor is a heart of any J2EE web application, so every web application must have a web.xml deployment descriptor directly under WEB-INF folder.
- For the content of web.xml, please refer to Sample of web.xml and Sample of web.xml for Servlet 2.3 (For some web container which support Servlet 2.3 only (e.g. Tomcat 4.x)
Create First ZUL file
Here is a simple zul file named hello.zul.
<window title="My First ZK Application" border="normal">
Hello World!
</window>
Pack your project
- Compress the myZK directory(e.g. myZK.zip)
- Rename myZK.zip to myZK.war
- Done!!
Confirm your ZK Web Archive (WAR) file
myZK.war ¦ hello.zul ¦ - WEB-INF ¦ web.xml ¦ - lib *.jar
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