ZK 3.0.6

Released on June 24, 2008.

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Getting Simpler and Richer

New Feature Highlight

  • Firefox 3 is supported.
  • A way to pass object in forward attribute.
  • All components support keyevents.
  • Users will be prompted for a retry if process error and system out-of-service occurs.
  • A way to integrate JSP without CSS incompatibility
  • See also New Features of ZK 3.0.6.

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:
    • 1968749: A way to pass object in forward attribute
    • 1978624: Keyevent support for every ZUL component
    • 1978636: Keyevent support getReference() to get the causing component
    • 1980357: forEach supports forEach="a, b, c"
    • 1982861: variables and custom-attributes support List and Map
    • 1988011: variables allows to assign variable with reserved name
    • 1959959: An option to allow user to refresh if an error
    • 1966723: A way to customize cofirm upon retry (resend mechanism)
    • 1873553: Integration with JSP and CSS problems
    • 1883237: A way to register listeners for particular desktop
    • 1966839: Able to listen when a component is attached, detached...
    • 1968393: A way to run JavaScript after certain module is loaded
    • 1964646: [patch] Don't detach item children in ListitemRenderer
    • 1886786: Listbox SelectAll Checkbox should consist with all the items
    • 1936936: Improve error messages for invalid properties and expression
    • 1941010: Reduce size of loading's gif: progress2.gif
    • 1864622: progress loading gif using CSS
    • 1970894: Labels with variables (MessageFormat)
    • 1978632: A ZK page being included shall inherit width and height
    • 1765940: A way to prevent caching dsp file in DspExtendlet (for dev)
    • 1990422: Component and/or IdSpace support getFellows() method
    • 1990677: Support autowire fellow component utility
    • 1990666: Support autowire variable object in GenericAutowireComposer
    • 1990681: Support event regisration utility
    • 1996808: Disable ThreadLocal listeners when ZK disable event thread
    • 1997525: Support autowire variable object utility
  • Bug fixes:
    • 1955452: Liferay Failed if two portlets from different Web apps
    • 1957661: Page.addFunctionMapper() fails
    • 1963607: Fail to invoke loadAll() when Databind with Paging of Grid
    • 1962153: Data binding generates duplicate id in some case
    • 1963547: Fail to add a Listitem with Paging mold
    • 1955454: imagemap shall not generate ismap if any area
    • 1967811: Should disable selection when multiple selection using Shift
    • 1968434: layout of grid is out of tabbox it specified height(IE only)
    • 1969455: Unable to forward one event to two targets
    • 1968667: bug for listbox popup IE
    • 1970048: Don't appear the gap of listheader whose label is empty
    • 1876391: To support Combobox uses setText() to receive correct item
    • 1973470: Listbox with multiple and checkmark and contextmenu
    • 1979088: Both paging fail to change the style in Grid and Listbox
    • 1981877: Dates.substract() for MINUTE field returns wrong value
    • 1981934: appy fail to handle mix of class name and composer insntance
    • 1944918: character encoding problem with pre-Servlet 2.4
    • 1979161: FileUpload styles is not working on IE.
    • 1979239: Tooltip in Menupopup / Menuitem
    • 1984025: Listfoot/footer invisible when Listbox height set
    • 1984152: Separator fail to show the bar on IE
    • 1985081: Select method in InputElement does not work properly
    • 1984643: onOK and onCancel don't work if listbox alone in modal
    • 1984990: Missing attributes definition in zul.xsd
    • 1819264: Popup doen't follow the component when scrolling with layout
    • 1989387: Fail to reinsert the new region of borderlayout
    • 1989659: Missing element in anyGroup of zul.xsd
    • 1990423: Fail to change Window's border dynamically
    • 1990036: Window Focus Problem
    • 1991550: Group box 3d closes/opens unexpectedly
    • 1991859: Button's onclick event should not propagate
    • 1992605: Popup component reposition is incorrect in Adobe Air
    • 1992842: jasperreport will be empty report in IE
    • 1995373: Intbox can't only be entered a % sign
    • 1996625: A dead listener, say, ExecutionInit, stall ZK execution
    • 1998417: Timebox doesn't update after clean the text
    • 1998613: Content-type for ~./img/spacer.gif is wrong with Apache

Upgrade Notes

  • The default CSS style of a page becomes "width:100%" (rather than "width:100%;height:100%", if it is included by a non-ZK page, such as JSP, DSP and so on.
  • org.zkoss.zkplus.databind.CollectionItemEx is renamed to org.zkoss.zkplus.databind.CollectionItemExt
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