ZK Spring

ZK Spring is an open source enterprise-grade library integrating the Spring framework with ZK.

ZK Spring provides an effortless way of accelerating application development by integrating robust SpringSource libraries such as Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and Spring Security with ZK.

The following benefits can be leveraged by ZK Spring integration

Spring MVC Framework

Seamlessly access Spring managed beans in EL, zscript and data binding
Complete lightweight container providing automated configuration and wiring of application objects
Common abstraction layer for transaction management
JDBC abstraction layer
Integration with Toplink, Hibernate and JDO
Aspect-orientated programming functionality

Spring Security

Ability to customize or extend parts of the security system
Keeps your application objects free of security code
HTTP request authorization
Multiple options for enforcing access-controls such as EJB3 security annotations
Open ID support
HTTP BASIC and Digest authentication supported
Various back-end credential storage methods supported such as a database or XML file
SHA and MD5 password encoding with optional salting
Database caching to prevent extra queries
Security for Web Flow

Spring Web Flow

A domain-specific-language for defining reusable controller modules
Advanced controller engine for managing conversational states

For in depth information and examples please check ZK Spring Essentials.

Note: Latest ZK Spring 3.0 supports Spring Core 3.x, Spring Security 3.x and Spring Web Flow 2.2.x releases. For your Spring Webflow 2.0.x needs please use ZK Spring 1.2 release.

Issue Tracker Moved

We have moved our issue tracker to http://tracker.zkoss.org/browse/ZKSPRING from 2011/9. Please submit new issue there. We Only copy those open issues to new issue tracker.