Technology Guidelines
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| Technology | When and When not |
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| MVC vs. Zscript |
When to use MVC: MVC (Model-View-Control) is a design pattern that separates the model, view and controller clearly. It is easy to collaborate, develop and maintain. In addition, the performance is great. MVC is strongly suggested for development, especially for production systems. When to use zscript: Zscript allows you to embed Java code in ZUML pages. It speeds up the design cycle, so it is suggested for prototyping, POC and testing. It is also good for exploiting ZK features and reporting bugs to ZK. However, Like any interpreter, the performance is not good, and tends to be error prone, so it is not suggested to use in production systems. MVC Extractor ZK Studio provides a tool called MVC Extractor that can convert zscript to MVC automatically. It simplifies to transfer the code from prototyping to production.
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| Data Binding |
When to use: Data Binding automates the data-copy plumbing code (CRUD) between UI components and the data source. It is strongly suggested whenever applicable, because it boosts the productivity a lot and the code is easy to read and maintain. When not to use: Barely. However, it requires more knowledge to learn than EL expressions, so EL expressions is an alternative for people, such as UI designer, not familiar with ZK, especially in the UI design phase. Documentation links: |
| ZUML vs. Richlet vs [[1]] |
When to use ZUML:
Documentation links: |
| Bookmarks vs. Multiple Pages | When to use bookmarks (in single page):
When to use multiple pages: Documentation links: |
| Native vs. HTML Components | When to use native:
When to use HTML: Documentation links: |
| Event Processing Thread | When to use:
When not to use: Documentation links: |