Create and Run Your First ZK Application Manually

Create your first application

Here shows you how to create a web application manually without IDE or other tools.

Download ZK Libraries

First, download the ZK libraries (Now is zk-bin-5.0.4.zip) from ZK Download and save it to a proper location.

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

1. Unzip zk-bin-5.0.4.zip
2. 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 web.xml

Create web.xml under myZK/WEB-INF. For the content of web.xml, please refer to Sample of web.xml

For older Tomcat (4.x) that supports only Servlet 2.3, please refer to Sample of web.xml for Servlet 2.3

Create hello.zul

For example, we can create a simple page to myZK, say, hello.zul with the following content.

<window title="My First ZK Application" border="normal">
	Hello World!
</window>

Compress this folder

壓縮myZK成為myZK.zip,rename to myZK.war

c:\>"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip c:\myZK c:\myZK\*

確認你的ZK.war的內容

myZK.war
│  hello.zul
│  
└─WEB-INF
    │  web.xml
    │  
    └─lib
            *.jar

Version History

Last Update : 2010/09/21

Version	Date	Content
5.0.4	9/21/2010	Created