ZK Spreadsheet Essentials/ZK Spreadsheet As JSF Component/Configure ZK Spreadsheet JSF Component

Downloads

• Download ZK 5.0.5 or later release binaries.
• Download ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta3 or later release binaries. and config it to be used as your JSF web application library by either directly copying into WEB-INF/lib or putting them on your web application classpath

Configuration

• Configure downloaded ZK & ZK Spreadsheet binaries as your JSF web application libraries by either directly copying into WEB-INF/lib or putting them on your web application classpath
• Add org.zkoss.zk.au.http.DHtmlUpdateServlet and its mapping into web.xml as shown below

  <servlet>
  	<description>
  	The asynchronous update engine for ZK</description>
  	<servlet-name>auEngine</servlet-name>
  	<servlet-class>
  	org.zkoss.zk.au.http.DHtmlUpdateServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
  	<servlet-name>auEngine</servlet-name>
  	<url-pattern>/zkau/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

• add ZK Spreadsheet JSF component taglib into the web.xml as shown below

	<context-param>
		<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/jsfzss-taglib.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

• and finally create jsfzss-taglib.xml with following contents and add to WEB-INF folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<facelet-taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facelettaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
	version="2.0">
	<namespace>http://www.zkoss.org/jsf/zss</namespace>
	<tag>
		<tag-name>spreadsheet</tag-name>
		<component>
			<component-type>spreadsheet</component-type>
		</component>
	</tag>
</facelet-taglib>

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All source code listed in this book is at Github.