Agile Ajax

ZK Integrates with Seam, Seasar, more

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, August 13, 2007 @ 5:19 am

As an open source project, ZK is extremely active. It's enough to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling if you are concerned about it's long term viability.

So, what's cooking in the ZK kitchen? Lots of integration with application frameworks and third-party libraries.

  • ZK Seam allows you to integrate ZK with Seam, naturally enough. What is Seam? A framework that is the marriage of JSF and EJB3. I have to say that I've developed such a deep allergy to both EJB and JSF that their integration seems more of a nightmare than a boon. It's sort of like that movie, The Pope of Greenwich Village, a great script and good director, but it contains my two least favorite actors, Mickey Rourke (EJB) and Eric Roberts (JSF). Offers of therapy to help me get over my aversion by showing me how EJB and JSF can be "done right," are hereby politely refused.
  • Integration with Seasar. What is Seasar? It is Kanji for Spring Framework. ;-) Actually, it is a dependency injection framework that resembles Spring a great deal, but claims to get you out of application context XML hell by letting you auto assemble object injection hierarchies using regular expressions and careful placement of classes in a directory structure. You can read more about Seasar here and here.
  • Further addition of yui-ext components (now known as Ext JS), a really first rate set of Ajax widgets, to ZK. Grids, drag and drop, data bindings. See here for the tutorial.

Also, you should give a look at the ZK Mobile framework, now at version 0.8.5. Basically you develop apps much the same way you do in ZK for the web, ZUML, etc., but it has a different set of components.

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Comments: 1 so far

  1. Seasar is one of the most popular open source projects in Japan. Good to know ZK is integrated with it.

    Comment by Ichiro, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 @ 8:35 pm

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