ZK - AJAX/Mobile Web Framework (#1 Ajax on SourceForge.net)

November 17th, 2007 Arsen Posted in Patterns - Java |

ZK ZK is an open-source enterprise Ajax Web framework that enables rich user interface for Web applications with little programming. With 400,000 downloads in 1.5 years, ZK empowers a wide variety of companies and institutions, ranging from small to large in multiple industries. ZK’s customers and users include Fortune 500 companies, governments and tens of thousands of developers in the world.

• With event-driven components and a markup language, developing is as simple as programming desktop applications and authoring HTML.
• No need JavaScript. (POJO)
• No hazards of exposing business logic on the client.
• 1st support both Ajax and Mobile (JavaME).
• Server-Centric processing.
• Event driven model.
• 77 XUL and 83 XHTML off-the-shelf components.
• Macro components.
• Annotations and data-binding (access database in ZUML with zero Java codes).
• Server push.
• Script in EL Expressions and scripting languages, such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.
• Integrated with other frameworks/solutions: JSF, JSP, Ext-JS(YUI), Google Maps, Google Calendar, Spring, Hibernate, Seam, Struts, Seasar, Acegi, JFreeChart, FCKeditor, amCharts, DOJO, Liferay, Timeline, I18N, Twitter, etc.
• Demo
• Tutorial
• Open-source license (GPL) by Potix Corporation.