ZKGrails

ZKGrails 1.0.3 and 1.1-M1 for Cloud

2011-05-12T03:15:00.000-07:00

I am please to announce that we are releasing two versions of ZKGrails
today. Both ship with ZK 5.0.7.

ZKGrails 1.0.3 is the third maintenance release for 1.0 series, and

ZKGrails 1.1-M1 is the first milestone of the 1.1 series.
This version of ZKGrails focuses on supporting cloud portability.
It is able to deploy to Cloud Foundry already (Hibernate/MySQL,
MongoDB as well as Redis).

See ZKGrails with MongoDB backend at http://zkgrails.cloudfoundry.com
Other cloud environments will be supported soon.

To install ZKGrails 1.1-M1, you need to specify it's version after the
install-plugin command, as follows:

$ grails install-plugin zk 1.1-M1

Other plugins in this release train are:

zk-hibernate
zk-mongodb
zk-redis

Each supports different backends for ZKGrails.

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 1.0 Released !!

2010-11-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

The project ZKGrails on Google Code started 2.5 years ago. The public first release there was 0.5. We have been blending ZK's best practices and Grails' ways of doing RIA together for the past 2 years. This results in a rapid and robust framework for developing Grails-based RIA applications.

ZKGrails 1.0 is released today!

You may find a presentation summerising ZKGrails features on its project page:

http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/

You can usually install the ZK plugin using the following commands:

$ grails install-plugin zk

and

$ grails install-plugin zk-ee

We also setup some roadmap for future versions of ZKGrails.

http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/Roadmap

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 1.0-M5 Released

2010-10-01T07:48:00.000-07:00

The new milestone of ZKGrails - the ZK plugin for Grails - has been released. This is milestone M5 and last milestone as we are moving to the RC phase.

This M5 version has been tested with Grails 1.2.x series and still have some small issue with the 1.3.x series. We hope to make things smooth by the next version, RC1.

ZKGrails 1.0-M5 contains 10 enhancements and 12 bugs fixed, including:

- Updated to ZK 5.0.4.
- Better handling 1-1 and 1-M relationships in dynamic scaffolding.
- Sub-plugin architecture.
- Comet enhancement.
- Ship jQuery4j with ZKGrails.

and etc.

You can install ZKGrails from the central Grails repository by typing:

$ grails install-plugin zk

As usual, the Enterprise Add-on for ZKGrails can be installed as a sub-plugin by typing:

$ grails install-plugin zk-ee

The release notes of this version may be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/ReleaseNotes100M5

ZKGrails 1.0-M4 released

2010-05-14T07:01:00.000-07:00

ZKGrails - the ZK plugin for Grails version 1.0-M4 has been released.
This version includes the latest ZK 5.0.2 and also tested with both
Grails 1.2.2 and Grails 1.3.0. It contains 16 bugs fixed and 7
enhancements, including:

- ZK 5.0.2.
- The Comet artefact, a Quartz-Job-like scheduler for pushing updates to clients.
- Functional test support via Grails Selenium-RC plugin.
- A separate plugin for ZK Enterprise Edition.
- Custom file extension; you can define your own extension for ZUL
pages, in case you embedding ZKGrails in other products.

We will do another milestone (M5) before going a couple of RC
releases, and then the final version.

As usual, you can install ZKGrails with

$ grails install-plugin zk

If you would like to install the Enterprise addon for ZKGrails, use the following command:

$ grails install-plugin zk-ee

Please read the release notes here:
http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/ReleaseNotes100M4

ZKGrails 1.0-M3 released

2010-04-05T01:31:00.000-07:00

ZKGrails 1.0-M3 has been released. This milestone release bundles ZK 5.0.1 and is built with Grails 1.2.2. This version also comes with several enhancements and bug fixes.

Please refer to the release notes here.

ZKGrails is released under LGPL.

You can install ZKGrails, as usual, from the central Grails repository by:

$ grails install-plugin zk

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 0.7.8 has been released

2010-03-22T20:48:00.000-07:00

ZKGrails 0.7.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release to
support ZK 3.6.4 and Grails 1.1.2+.
Here's the release notes:
http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/ReleaseNotes078

You can install ZKGrails, as usual, from the central Grails or
ZKGrails repository by:

$ grails install-plugin zk

You may set your Grails setting (in $HOME/.grails/settings.groovy):

grails.plugin.repos.discovery.zkgrails="http://zkgrails.googlecode.com/svn/plugins"
grails.plugin.repos.resolveOrder=['zkgrails','default','core']

to install ZKGrails from its Google Code repository.

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 1.0-M2 has been released

2010-02-05T07:50:00.000-08:00

ZKGrails 1.0-M2 has been released. This milestone release supports ZK 5 and Grails 1.2.
This version comes with a very exciting feature, GSP tag library support.
You can now be able to use Grails taglib to develop ZUL components!

Please refer to the release notes here.

ZKGrails is now released under LGPL.

You can install ZKGrails, as usual, from the central Grails repository by:

$ grails install-plugin zk

Enjoy Ajax!

Patch repository for ZK available at Github

2010-01-07T03:56:00.000-08:00

ZKGrails now has a patch repository for ZK available at http://github.com/zkgrails/zk-delta, as we want to ensure that every ZKGrails release will conform our user's requirements. Codes in the zk-delta repository will be available for each stable branch of ZK to provide quick fixes and enhancements. Currently we have patches for the 3.6.3. Thanks to Stacked GIT that helps us easily manage patches along with ZK's upstream branches.

Instructions for applying patches are in the README file.

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 0.7.6 has been released

2009-11-30T05:37:00.000-08:00

ZKGrails 0.7.6 has been released. This version supports ZK 3.6.3 and
Grails 1.1.2. This version also comes with a number of new features. Please refer to the release note here.

You can install ZKGrails, as usual, from the central Grails repository by:

$ grails install-plugin zk

Enjoy Ajax!

ZK Development Team released ZK 3.6.3

2009-11-03T00:22:00.000-08:00

From: http://www.zkoss.org/release/rn-3.6.3.dsp

The ZK development team at Potix releases their latest version of ZK, 3.6.3. This version comes with a pack of improvements, bug fixes and new features.

FYI, ZKGrails 0.7.6 will be an upgrade for this ZK release.

Tweaking GrailsComposer for MOP's event handlers

2009-10-26T11:28:00.000-07:00

Felipe Cypriano has posted about his tweaking of GrailsComposer to dispatch event handles through the Groovy's MOP. His patch is already in the current version (1.0-M1) of ZKGrails now.

ZKGrails 1.0-M1 Released

2009-10-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

ZKGrails 1.0-M1 has been released. This version uses ZK 5.0-RC and it's for Grails 1.2-M3.
This is a milestone release, and the license has been changed (according to ZK) to LGPL.
Now, it's freely to use ZKGrails for opensource and commercial projects.

You can install ZKGrails from either the central Grails repository or the ZKGrails repository (which is hosted on Google Code and probably faster).

To install from the ZKGrails repository, put the following lines into
your application's grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy:

grails.plugin.repos.discovery.zkgrails="http://zkgrails.googlecode.com/svn/plugins"
grails.plugin.repos.resolveOrder=['zkgrails','default','core']

Then type:
$ grails install-plugin zk

(You can also have a setting of ZKGrails repository in
$USER_HOME/.grails/settings.groovy)

As usual, you can install ZKGrails directly from the central Grails
repository by:

$ grails install-plugin zk

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 1.0 Series for Grails 1.2 and ZK 5

2009-10-17T11:17:00.000-07:00

I have an update for ZKGrails today. The master branch has been updated to Grails 1.2-M3. ZK used in this branch is 5.0-RC and the next release will be ZKGrails 1.0-M1.

Please note that the license of 1.0 series will be changed to LGPL. This means that you can now freely using ZKGrails in commercial products.

To build it, you need Grails 1.2-M3 installed and the compatible web container is Jetty, not Tomcat, which is by default in Grails 1.2.

To clone from the master branch, you can use the following command:

git clone git://github.com/chanwit/zkgrails.git

Enjoy Ajax!

ZKGrails 0.7.4 has been released

2009-06-28T18:08:00.000-07:00

The new version of ZKGrails, 0.7.4, has been released.

This version supports ZK 3.6.2 and Grails 1.1.1. Grails applications using ZKGrails 0.7.4 will be benefit from performance improvement of the latest version of ZK, especially with IE 6. Users of ZKGrails 0.7.3 are recommended to upgrade to this release.

You can install ZKGrails into your Grails application directly from the central plugin repository by running:

$ grails install-plugin zk

Basic Scaffolding in 0.8-FL

2009-06-08T15:12:00.000-07:00

I have done simple scaffolding support for ZKGrails. It currently supports primitive column types of GORM domain class.

You can find the capture of the scaffolding screen of Event domain class as follow:

Here's the domain class and its composer:

class Event {

    String name
    Integer priority
    Date date
    Boolean complete = false
    Long number = 0

    static constraints = {
        name()
        priority()
        date()
        complete()
        number()
    }

}

import org.zkoss.zkgrails.*

class EventComposer extends GrailsComposer {

    static scaffold = Event

    def afterCompose = { c ->
        // initialize component here
    }
}

I am trying, as much as possible, to keep the spirit of Grails in Composer. Next step is to make the scaffolding handle GORM relationship. It will be surely fun to use ZKGrails with this exciting feature.

You can try this feature in the snapshot here.

ZKGrails to Support AppEngine

2009-06-06T13:56:00.001-07:00

Announced by the ZK team, they are currently working to make ZK fully run on Google AppEngine for the next coming release, 3.6.2.
On the Grails side, it has been already supported AppEngine since 1.1.1, with the AppEngine plugin.

ZKGrails 0.8-AE, the special branch of ZKGrails to support AppEngine, has been updated to the freshly version of ZK (3.6.2-FL). It now partially runs on AppEngine. You can find the demo here.

Source of its development version is also available on Github.

ZKGrails 0.7.3 has been released

2009-06-06T13:47:00.000-07:00

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.