ZKGrails: ZK plugin for Grails

ZKGrails is a plugin for the next generation rapid Web development framework, Grails. Based on ZK, one of the leading RIA frameworks, ZKGrails adds and enhances its RIA development capabilities and seamlessly integrates it with Grails' infrastructures. This results in an advanced RIA framework featuring direct AJAX and convention-over-configuration.

Latest stable: ZKGrails 1.0.6 (ZK 5.0.9 / Grails 1.2+ and 1.3+ )
Latest Milestone: ZKGrails 1.1-M1 (Grails 1.2+ and 1.3+)
Latest Snapshot is available on a CloudBees CI server.

Would like to try this similar functionality in pure Java? Try ZK addon for Spring Roo.

Peer Support

You can use the mailing list here for both support and development discussion.

Commercial Support

The annual subscription for ZKGrails LTS (Long-Term Support) including the urgent bug fixing service is available here.

Install from 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 $HOME/.grails/settings.groovy)

Install

Type $ grails install-plugin zk to install from the main Grails repository.

or $ grails install-plugin http://zkgrails.googlecode.com/files/grails-zk-1.0.zip

Install the EE version

You can also install the Enterprise edition by

$ grails install-plugin zk-ee

If you install it manually, you have to run both of the following commands:

$ grails install-plugin http://zkgrails.googlecode.com/files/grails-zk-1.0.zip

$ grails install-plugin http://zkgrails.googlecode.com/files/grails-zk-ee-1.0.zip

Quick Start

Type

$ grails create-zul index

will give you

web-app/index.zul linked with indexComposer
grails-app/composers/IndexComposer.groovy, the composer class.

Then $ grails run-app, and point your browser to http://localhost:8080/<your app>/index.zul.

As of version 0.7, auto reloading is fully supported.

To create only a composer, you can type $ grails create-composer <name>.

If you are going to create zul files manually, please use this template for your .zul files. AnnotateDataBinderInit is for data-binding support. DelegatingVariableResolver is for injecting Spring beans, and GroovyGrails is for making Grails classes work for you.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?init class="org.zkoss.zkplus.databind.AnnotateDataBinderInit" ?>
<?variable-resolver class="org.zkoss.zkplus.spring.DelegatingVariableResolver"?>

<?page zscriptLanguage="GroovyGrails"?>

News

18-Oct-2011 ZKGrails 1.0.6 has been released. This version has no bug fixing. It is an update to support ZK 5.0.9. Release Notes.
22-Aug-2011 ZKGrails 1.0.5 has been released. This version contains minor bug fixes for the 1.0 series. Release Notes.
23-May-2011 ZKGrails 1.0.4 has been released. This version ships with the hotfix release ZK 5.0.7.1. It also contains a feature to better support editing ZUL in ZK Studio Release Notes.
12-May-2011 We are releasing two versions of ZKGrails today. ZKGrails 1.0.3 (Release Notes) is the third maintenance release for 1.0 series, and ZKGrails 1.1-M1 (Release Notes) is the first milestone of the 1.1 series. Both ship with ZK 5.0.7.
25-Feb-2011 ZKGrails 1.0.2 has been released. This is the second maintenance release for 1.0 series and it ships with ZK 5.0.6 Release Notes.
21-Dec-2010 ZKGrails 1.0.1 has been released. This is the first maintenance release for 1.0 series Release Notes.
2-Nov-2010 ZKGrails 1.0 has been released. This version ships with ZK 5.0.5 and the new Breeze theme Release Notes.
21-Oct-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-RC3 has been released. This is the last release candidate for 1.0 series. Release Notes.
18-Oct-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-RC2 has been released. This is the second release candidate for 1.0 series. Release Notes.
12-Oct-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-RC1 has been released. This is the first release candidate for 1.0 series. Release Notes.
1-Oct-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-M5 has been released. This version includes ZK 5.0.4. Release Notes.
14-May-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-M4 has been released. This version includes ZK 5.0.2. Release Notes.
5-Apr-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-M3 has been released. This version includes ZK 5.0.1. Release Notes.
23-Mar-2010 ZKGrails 0.7.8 has been released. This maintenance release includes ZK 3.6.4. Release Notes.
5-Feb-2010 ZKGrails 1.0-M2 has been released. This version includes ZK 5.0. Release Notes.
26-Jan-2010 ZK 5 has been released. ZKGrails 1.0-M2 will be the first milestone to support it.

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