ZKGrails 0.7.3 has been released

ZKGrails 0.7.3 has been released. ZKGrails is an AJAX plugin for Grails, a full-stack web application framework built on top of Spring and Hibernate. It provides seamless integration between these two frameworks, bringing convention-over-configuration to direct AJAX.

Version 0.7.3 of ZKGrails:

• Supports Grails 1.1.1 and ZK 3.6.1.
• Provides Grails script to create Composers.
• Provides Grails script to create Facades, session scoped Spring beans to hold your GUI elements (which is implemented in ZkToDo version 2).
• Supports Zk Groovy Builder, to programmatically create ZUL elements using an easy-to-use Groovy domain specific language.
• Supports auto-reloading for Composer and Facade via Spring container, make your development as fast as scripting!
• Allows you to use Grails classes, for example Services and GORM (Grails Object-Relational Mapping) to dramatically boost your productivity.

How to get start with ZK & Grails?

Just download Grails from grails.org, follow installation instructions and run:

$ grails install zk

Resources

• You may find this Groovy DZone's tutorial useful.
• There is also a NetBeans version of the above tutorial from REM, ZK plugin for NetBeans, website.