ZK 3.0.6

Released on June 24, 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:
  • 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