ZK 3.0.5

Released on April 30, 2008.

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Getting Simpler and Richer

Feature Updates

• 89 XUL and 83 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.
  • Load on demand with writing Java codes.
  • Live data for listbox.
  • Grids, listboxes and trees with sizable columns.
  • All components are cloneable and serializable.
  • Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular expression and $#,##0.
  • 100% Java API of Google Maps, FCKeditor, DOJO, and Timeline components.
• Event-driven, server-centric model
  • More than 20 events are supported: onChange, onChanging, onScroll, onSelect, onShow, onZIndex...
  • All events are processed at the server. No hurdle to communicate between clients and servers.
  • 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 EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.
  • Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
  • Annotations that allow a page to acess database with zero Java codes.
• 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 classes, or by scripting in your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy. 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:
  • 1951358: A way to have component-specific Command
  • 1951286: JavaScript utils: comm.sendClick and comm.sendUser
  • 1936373: Translate messages to Arabic. Thank Ayman Ahmed Elgharabawy for his contribution.
  • 1944509: textbox supports onCancel
  • 1944512: HtmlBasedComponent supports setFocus(boolean)
  • 1947534: A way to specify the session cache
  • 1948462: AuResponse supports DeferredValue
  • 1953246: Smart update supports an array of values
  • 1949336: Component supports isInvalidated
  • 1914491: BindingListModel subclasses are not accessible.
• Bug fixes:
  • 1929139: [IE6/IE7 only] Incomplete requests being dropped
  • 1926759: Invisible splitter still visible
  • 1926742: Javascript Error after filedownload + doModal
  • 1926092: Treeitem/listitem popup/context does not stay up
  • 1926990: Timebox didn't show button when buttonVisible from false to true
  • 1927788: ESC stops Ajax (FF only)
  • 1927196: groupbox with grid bug (IE6Only)
  • 1927154: IE6Only: grid inside tabbox floats outside tabbox area
  • 1926480: Cant change header label dynamically.
  • 1930068: IE appears corpse of Paging while using external Paging comp
  • 1926094: Listfooter overlays Listheader (IE6)
  • 1822717: slider's layout went wrong if sliding parent groupbox(IE6)
  • 1882277: Overflow:auto lost when swiching accord tabbox (Safari only)
  • 1752907: groupbox mold=3d FF animation jumping
  • 1920793: The focused style of selected item differences Firefox/IE
  • 1936366: focus don’t work after Messagebox
  • 1933050: onSelect fail in Listbox's select mold when use key(FF&Sa)
  • 1936804: combobox.onInitRender(Event data) triggers validation.
  • 1472534: error popup is shown behind select inputs(IE6 only)
  • 1938345: Log shall use Locale.getDefault, not Locales.getCurrent
  • 1882432: Scrolbar of listbox is moved after sorting in Opera
  • 1939059: Messagebox fail when the last node is a native HTML
  • 1939061: <?page complete="true"?> not applicable to zul pages
  • 1938534: Upload causes an exception, not reproducible but with log
  • 1813518: Component namespace not work for page-level compoenent-def
  • 1906748: Combobox, binding and selected item Fail in Java6 only
  • 1942735: Failed to render with invalid URL as href(IE7 only)
  • 1943783: Timebox fail to listen onOK event
  • 1944918: character encoding problem with pre-Servlet 2.4
  • 1945361: AjaxDevice's getContentType() shall not return charset
  • 1943594: onblur shall not be sent if click on combobox's dropdown
  • 1896267: zul.xsd invalid
  • 1941947: Cannot find associated CollectionItem error
  • 1948963: Timebox validation
  • 1950313: F - 1764967 bug

Upgrade Notes

• Session's getNativeSession() returns an instance of PortletSession (rather than HttpSession), if ZK porlet is used.
• DataBinder's addCollectionItem(String comp, CollectionItem decor) is deprecated. Use addCollectionItem(Class item, Class owner, CollectionItem decor) instead.