ZK Developer’s Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with ZK
• What is ZK?
• XHTML
• XUL
• ZUML
• First Step: Say Hello to ZK
• Inside ZK—How ZK Works
• The Three Relatives—Desktop, Page, and Component
• Identification in ZK
• Loading and Updating a ZK Page
• Phase: Page Initial
• Phase: Component Creation
• Phase: Event Processing
• Phase: Rendering
• Phase: Request Processing
• Phase: Event Processing
• Phase: Rendering
• Events in ZK—Listening and Processing
• What is the Priority?—The Order of Event Processing
• How Can We Parallelize Event Listeners?
• Event Processing Thread—Initialize and Cleanup
• Event Types
• ZUML – ZK User Interface Markup Language
• Molds
• ZK Elements
• Layout Techniques
• Separation of Concerns
• Configuration and Deployment
• Configuration of web.xml
• Configuration of zk.xml
• Deployment
• Deployment of ZK Applications with Maven
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Online Media Library
• An Online Media Library
• Setting up Eclipse to Develop with ZK
• Setting up a New Project
• Creating the Pages
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Extending the Online Media Library
• AJAX—Live Data
• Updating at the Right Place
• Optimize the Result Presentation
• Improve Navigation Inside the Data
• Some Candies for the User
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Is it on the Desktop or on the Web?
• Adding Drag-and-Drop
• Adding a Login Page
• Extending Add and Update
• Internationalization with the ZK Framework
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Integration with Other Frameworks
• Integration with the Spring Framework
• Hibernate
• JasperReport
• ZK Mobile
• ZK JSP Tags Library
• ZK JSF Components
• Binding to a Backing Bean
• ValueBinding of a component

• Summary

• Chapter 6: Creating Custom Components
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Macro Components
• Creating Our Own Component
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Development Tools for the ZK Framework
• ZK-Bench
• Dynamic Preview of Pages
• The Palette
• Databinding
• Deployment
• Snippets
• Project Explorer
• Snapshot Gallery
• Summary

• Appendix A: Configuration Files in ZK
• WEB.XML
• zk.xml
• Configuration of ZK.XML
• <richlet> Tag
• <listener> Tag
• <log> Tag
• <desktop-config> Tag
• <el-config> Tag
• <language-config> Tag
• <session-config> Tag
• <system-config> Tag
• <zscript-config> Tag
• <error-page> Tag
• <preference> Tag

• Index