Chapter 1: Introduction
Overview
This tutorial presents you key concepts and suggested usage of ZK from the perspective of building a web application. We give a example application for each chapter's topic, and each application is built upon previous chapter's application to add some features. Then finally the example application is becoming closer to real application. The source code of the example application can be download through [github].
Chapter 1, we introduce the ZK itself including its strength, value, and architecture.
Chapter 2, we describe the example application's project structure.
Chapter 3, we introduce how to build commonly-seen layout which contains header, footer, and sidebar.
Chapter 4, we tell you how to control components programmatically.
Chapter 5, it describes how to collect, validate user input and response.
Chapter 6, we demonstrate how to implement common CRUD operations with a To-Do list application.
Chapter 7, we introduce 2 navigation way in ZK, page-based and singe-desktop.
Chapter 8, it demonstrate a simple implementation to authenticate users.
Chapter 9, we describe how to integrate Spring framework into a ZK application.
Chapter 10, we demonstrate how to use JPA in a ZK application.
ZK's Value
- brief ZK's characteristic and feature
- pure java
- component-based, (fast composite UI)
- event driven
- server client fusion
- handling AJAX communication details
- support two design pattern
Architecture
- widgets at client
- components at server
- widgets and components synchronize themselves automatically
- Server-centric
- access full Java technology stack
- control component to implement UI presentation logic
- User interaction with widgets are abstracted as events sent to server with AJAX request, can be handled at the server side.
- Client-centric
- customize visual effect
- handle event