ZK Spring 3.0

Released on Mar 1, 2011.

Getting Simpler and Richer

The following benefits can be leveraged by ZK Spring integration:


Spring MVC Framework

• Seamlessly access Spring managed beans in EL, zscript and data binding
• Complete lightweight container providing automated configuration and wiring of application objects
• Common abstraction layer for transaction management
• JDBC abstraction layer
• Integration with Toplink, Hibernate and JDO
• Aspect-orientated programming functionality

Spring Security

• Ability to customize or extend parts of the security system
• Keeps your application objects free of security code
• HTTP request authorization
• Multiple options for enforcing access-controls such as EJB3 security annotations
• Open ID support
• HTTP BASIC and Digest authentication supported
• Various back-end credential storage methods supported such as a database or XML file
• SHA and MD5 password encoding with optional salting
• Database caching to prevent extra queries
• Security for Web Flow

What's New

New Features:

• 11: Support Spring Webflow 2.2.1+
• 12: Support Auto-wiring of ZK components in Spring beans
• 2942726: ZK support Spring Security 3.0
• 2984307: ZK Spring integration support Spring core 3.0.2 release
• 2984309: Split zkspring.jar in to two binaries
• 2464162: Support auto-binding of Spring bean as controller of ZK view
• 2444958: Support inject of ZK component into Spring Bean
• 2464156: Support ZK implicit object as Spring beans
• 2444955: Support 'execution' scope.
• 2444952: Support 'page' scope
• 2444951: Support 'desktop' scope
• 2464151: Support 'application' scope.
• 2464150: Support 'idspace' scope.
• 2464207: Support simple form of ZK component Spring bean definition
• 2464220: Support Java annotation based configuration

Bug fixes:

• 1: Performance degradation for zul files with use/apply composer that implements Composer
• 2: ZK 5.0.2 with Spring Webflow doesn't work
• 3: BeanCreationException when deploy
• 7: ZK Spring not work with org.springframework.webflow-2.0.8
• 10: error using zkspring-annot component-scan
• 2984311: login.zul displayed in login popup
• 2984312: Runtime exception thrown instead of access denied page
• 2984313: login popup not closed
• 2984317: form-login login-page should override zk popup login page
• 2781558: SpringAnnotations - @EventHandler dosn't honor @Scope("idspace")
• 2764814: ZK-Spring Annotations - Controller bound to old Instance...
• 2876912: ZK Spring IdSpaceScope is not working with ZK5
• 2885793: >?import?< in page cause NPE