| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » ZK: Ajax without the Javascript Framework | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | ZK is the most popular open source SourceForge Ajax web framework that enables rich user interface for web applications with no JavaScript and little programming. This firstPress book will cover the following: - Shows you how to use this simplest Ajax framework to write real-world responsive web applications
- Covers ZK's more than 70 XUL and 80 XHTML rich GUI components
- Authoritatively written by cofounder/lead of the ZK project
What you’ll learn - Perform Ajax development without the use of JavaScript
- Write your first ZK framework–based application: “Hello World!”
- Augmenting with Eclipse IDE, build a more dynamic, responsive “Hello World!” application
- Use ZKs more than 70 XUL and 80 XHTML rich GUI components
- Explore megacomponents for Google Maps and more
- Build a real-world application such as a pet store by using ZK in the presentation tier and beyond
- Integrate and use ZK with other frameworks like Hibernate
Who this book is for Web application designers and programmers who wish to implement rich Ajax web applications in the simplest way. Table of Contents - What Is the ZK Ajax Framework
- Getting Started with ZK
- Building Your First ZK Application
- Introducing the Versatile ZK Components
- Setting Up the Development Environment
- Creating a Real WebApplication
- Linking the GUI to a Database
- Binding Data Automatically
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Henri Chen | | Paperback:
| 125 pages | | Publisher:
| Apress | | Publication Date:
| September 13, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1590599012 | | Product Length:
| 7.51 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.25 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.73 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Good as an introduction, but far too thin for practical use.Feb 17, 2008
By Scott Naef
I bought this book in hopes it would be full and complete reference. I was mistaken. As far as OpenSouce projects go ZK has a great amount of information available on their website and it was a great resource as I got started using ZK. However, I quickly ran into areas where things were not documented fully or were explained from an angle that I was not coming from.
I turned to this book in hopes that it would be more complete than the website documentation. I found this not to be the case. There are some good exaples in the book, but it is already far too outdated. If you need a good starting text it is OK, but until a new book is released (no info here, just a wish) I would suggest sticking with the web resources.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Quick Overview, Printed OddlyOct 01, 2007
By W. G. Iverson
I'm a fan of Java-based frameworks (such as Echo 2) and was looking forward to this book on ZK as a nice introduction to the framework.
The book is slim but delivers on exactly the kind of content I was hoping for. It starts with a great overview, and then has a few real world examples.
I would have loved to see more information on working in pure Java (richlets), but otherwise found the content to be great for the size.
The only oddity is that my copy appears to have been printed off a screen-resolution PDF - all of the text, images, etc. look worse than if I ran it off on my home laser printer. I'm going to chalk this up to an oddity of how this particular edition was run off, but I would hope that this is a rare QC issue that would be quickly fixed.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Do not waste your moneyJul 12, 2009
By Rosina Ivan Ignazio
"Rosina Ivan"
It's a bad book.
Few words and a lot of images. Chapters wasted on installing sun JDK, installing Eclipse, installing Tomcat.
Very little on real ZK and how it works !
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Very easy to readJan 21, 2008
By Pico esquina
"Pico esquina"
It's a very begining book for ZK, with examples and easy to read for non english people like me. A good introduction to this amazing project.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
too little, too lateMay 27, 2008
By music_ lover_NL
The ZK framework is very much a moving target, it s in a constant development. There is a lot of documentation to be found on the internet, which renders the book somewhat less useful. The examples are sometimes not correct and generate confusion.
ZK is a framework that needs other frameworks and products to construct working applications. I expected the book to provide some best practices and guidance on how to do things the easy way, but I was disappointed in that.
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