ZK Light

From Documentation

ZK Light is a lighter version of ZK framework with the complete client engine and full-fledged widgets.

It is aimed to enable the rich, and engaging RIA user experience for Web applications and websites that don't need to integrate with the sophisticated enterprise infrastructure.

• Free open-source LGPL license
• Over 90 off-the-shelf state-of-art XUL-complaint Ajax widgets
• Flexible widget manipulation in JavaScript, Java^[1] and/or a XML markup language^[2]
• Template-based DHTML structure, CSS-based skin, drag-and-drop, animation, and more
• Multi-platform supported, including, but not limited to, Java, PHP, Python...

1. ↑ Java API is provided with GWT (not ready yet)
2. ↑ The markup language is called iZUML - a simplified version of ZUML. Notice that it is processed at the client.

How do I start?

1. Download ZK Light.
2. Read the getting started.
3. Check out sample applications.

Resources

• ZK5: JavaScript API
• iZUML - client-side ZUML (ZK User-interface Markup Language)