ZK^TM

Version 2.1.0

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Released on August 28, 2006. [History]

• Feature Updates
• What's New
• Upgrade Notes

Feature Updates

• 69 XUL and 82 HTML off-the-shelf components.
  • Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, chart, hbox, vbox, window, slider, paging, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
  • Drag-and-drop supported by all components, such that users can drag components and drop them to any other or particular set of components.
  • Context menus and customizable tooltips supported by all components, such that a menu or any popup appears when user click, right-click or move the mouse over a component.
  • Customizable sorting of listbox, grid and children of any component with 100% Java codes (java.lang.Comparator).
  • Auto-completion for combobox.
  • Live data for listbox.
  • All components are cloneable and serializable.
  • Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular expression and $#,##0.
  • 100% Java API of FCKeditor and Dojo components.
• Event-driven, server-centric model
  • More than 20 events are supported: onChange, onChanging, onScroll, onSelect, onShow, onZIndex...
  • All event listeners are handled in Java, either by compiled byte-codes or by BeanShell, up to application developers.
  • All events are processed at the server. No JavaScript required.
  • All events are synchronized. No racing condition to worry about.
• ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
  • Rich user interface could be designed in ZUML as simple as authoring HTML pages.
  • Powerful yet intuitive control flow by the if, unless and forEach attribute.
  • Scripting in Java (by BeanShell) and EL expressions.
  • Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
• Browser history management.
  • Add states to browser's back button history. Then, users can bookmark and use the back and forward button to navigate different states of the same ZK desktop.
• Simple yet boundless component model.
  • Macro components. Developing a full-feature new component by using another ZUML pages.
  • Inheritable customization. Developing a new component by extending existent components.
  • Seamlessly and easily to encapsulate pure-client components as ZK components with 100% Java API.
  • Customizing components with pre-compiled Java or by scripting in Java. The choice is yours.
• Simple yet flexible threading model.
  • Thread-safe component handling.
  • True server-side Modal dialog.
  • Suspend and resume event listeners freely.
• 100% Customizable User-Interface factory.
  • Loading ZUML pages not only from Web contents but also any repository such as database.
  • Customizing the features of sessions, desktops and pages.

What's New

• New Features:
  1513892, 1475475, 1517902, 1517384, 1518636, 1521070, 1521058, 1522329, 1522677, 1507204, 1523732, 1518548, 1525722, 1526249, 1520170, 1526869, 1527198, 1526335, 1529424, 1529754, 1525221, 1530200, 1530202, 1487286, 1526355, 1534285, 1537838, 1537962, 1538400, 1538407, 1480527, 1539887, 1540100, 1532548, 1460368, 1545169, 1537234, 1545998, 1545163.
  • The chart component is added.
    • It supports pie, pie3d, ring, bar, bar3d, stacked_bar, stacked_bar3d, line, line3d, area, stacked_area, waterfall, histogram, polar, scatter, time_series, step_chart, step, xy area, xy stacked_area, xy bar, xy line, candlestick, highlow
  • The progressmeter component is added.
  • The paging component is added.
  • The style component is added to simplify the specification of CSS styles.
  • The import directive is added to import component definitions from other pages.
  • German messages are supported. Thank H.-Dirk Schmitt for his contribution.
  • Spain messages are supported. Thank Daniel Octavio Ruiz Rodriguez for his contribution.
  • Italic messages are supported. Thank Matteo Barbieri for his contribution.
  • Both grid and listbox support the paging mold.
  • Customizable error pages.
  • LocaleProvider and TimeZoneProvider to provide differernt locale and time zone for different users.
  • The datebox and calendar components support the timeZone property.
  • The onClientInfo event is added to report the client' information to the server, such as time zone and screen resolutions.
  • Components, pages, desktops and sessions are serializable.
    • User can keep use the same desktop even if the Web server is restarted.
    • The Web server could migrate a session from one machine to another.
    • Whether a session is serializable is cofigurable.
• Bug fixes:
  1513895, 1514932, 1515175, 1515311, 1514789, 1493440, 1517037, 1436397, 1505786, 1518540, 1453157, 1510701, 1520737, 1510539, 1521847, 1522843, 1521311, 1522339, 1521868, 1523751, 1523875, 1525710, 1525712, 1527527, 1527535, 1527895, 1526542, 1528592, 1529735, 1533736, 1533840, 1533989, 1533480, 1537672, 1534426, 1535787, 1537884, 1538506, 1538250, 1541132, 1540491, 1540491, 1541143, 1543872, 1543934, 1544067, 1546019, 1542571, 1542511, 1544023, 1531557, 1545183, 1533421, 1548060.

Upgrade Notes

• The xml-stylesheet directive is obsolete. Use the style component instead.
• lang-addon.xml in JAR must specify <version>.
• The print method is moved from com.potix.zk.ui.Desktop to com.potx.zk.ui.util.Clients.
• The getClientName method of the com.potix.zk.ui.Session interface is renamed to getClientHost.

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