ZK - Open Source Java Web Framework

ZK 3.6.2 release notes

Released on June 23, 2009.

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Getting Simpler and Richer

Feature Updates

• 123 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:
  • 2787715: Messagebox shall recognize linebreak
  • 2789884: Include supports macro (page-less) mode
  • 2790411: A way to use createComponents in the working thread
  • 2788162: Support the script directive ( )
  • 2790025: supports more readable format than arg0, arg1...
  • 2790391: supports more readable format than arg0...
  • 2790392: supports more readable than arg0, arg1..
  • 2788752: Introduce beforeParentChanged, beforeChildAdded...
  • 2790402: Servlets support utility to return normalized path
  • 2790420: Allow specify binder's name in AnnotateDataBinderInit
  • 2790441: Enhance GenericAutowireComposer to wire vars before onCreate
  • 2787711: Hope paging setTotalSize() won't affect inputing active page
  • 2790669: zk should provide a way to load i18n prop. files by zk.xml
  • 2800849: Support Google App Engine
  • 2803894: GenericComposer supports clustering (Serializable)
  • 2800446: A way to enable or disable the stackup in JS
• Bug fixes:
  • 2784298: Missing properties in XSD for panel [2]
  • 2784569: Missing src property for menuitem component in XSD
  • 2784736: On demand Menupopup items on IE looks transparent
  • 2787077: Listbox-Paging was broken with fix for #2782751
  • 2787785: Wrong Slovenian locale (Singhalese -> Slovenian)
  • 2787876: a bug of textbox with constraint
  • 2788618: datebox with constraint="no future"
  • 2788875: Https.getOriginPathInfo() & getOriginQueryString() exchange
  • 2789915: Click the button to reset the hoverImage will fail
  • 2789990: listbox behaves odd in IE7
  • 2790393: Forward event listener shall be called immediately
  • 2790417: load-after and save-after shall be the last processed
  • 2791499: SerializableUiFactory causes NPE when Web app stops (Tomcat)
  • 2792105: Highlight effect not revert if dragging listitem to non-droppable area
  • 2794205: IE6 the errorbox moves away
  • 2794303: panel cannot contain a caption and a title
  • 2794714: Bug
  • 2795318: Context menu stops working on modal windows
  • 2796144: Datebox with format="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a" loses am/pm
  • 2796335: Borderlayout+Tabbox+Tree will cause Tab disappear
  • 2796461: The height of datebox's popup should count on its content
  • 2796829: Include onCtrlKeys attribute in bandbox XSD
  • 2797773: Copy / Paste on NumberInputElement not working
  • 2799258: Increasing col's width causes a unnecessary scrollbar (IE)
  • 2799334: focus doesn't get back from popup
  • 2800851: BSHInterpreter doesn't serialize variables defined in Window
  • 2800879: Rowcomparator NOT Serializable
  • 2801878: Missing properties in radiogroup and radio components in XSD
  • 2803344: Executions.createComponents cannot handle ~./x?y
  • 2803575: bindingArgs shall merge extra binding arguments together
  • 2806414: onOK with onChanging causes a Javascript error in Textbox
  • 2807475: Focus problem with menupop & textbox in ie
  • 2807870: ctrlKeys missing from XSD of bandbox
  • 2807657: Applet and CodeBase
  • 2806116: Javadoc misleading on TypeConverter interface
  • 2809040: The forward condition doesn't accept multiple values
  • 2809054: Unable to remove the forward condition in forward event