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Top contributor Stephan Gerth blogs about his modal search box creation. For more information and the source code of the component please click the link below.

http://www.forsthaus.de/blog/?p=274

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK 5.0.3. ZK 5.0.3 is a maintenance release introducing 15 new features including a custom calendar renderer and 84 bug fixes.

http://www.zkoss.org/release/rn-5.0.3.dsp
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/New_Features_of_ZK_5.0.3

erbert Daume of DIMOCO GmbH, Austria, demonstrates how to customize the server message on long running events using ZK's Server Push technology.

http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Customized_Server_Message

ZK 5.0.3 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1/files/ZK%20Freshly/zk-5.0.3-FL-2010-06-18
http://www.zkoss.org/download/freshly/

jQuery4j 0.8 has been released to the public. The project is based on ZK 5 and brings developers the ability to control jQuery widgets using Java or a markup language.

Project: http://www.jquery4j.org/
Demo: http://www.jquery4j.org/demo

jQuery4j 0.8 has been released to the public. The project is based on ZK 5 and brings developers the ability to control jQuery widgets using Java or a markup language.

Project: http://code.google.com/p/jquery4j/downloads/detail?name=jQuery4j-bin-0.8.zip&can=2&q=
Demo: http://code.google.com/p/jquery4j/downloads/detail?name=jQuery4j-demo-0.8.zip&can=2&q=

Simon Pai introduces us to Canvas4Z, a component which enables user to draw various objects within a browser using Java2D.

http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/How_To_Use_Canvas4Z

Sachin K Mahajan, IBM software developer, and Ashish Dasnurkar, ZK engineer, explore ZK's integration with JavaEE's Contexts and Dependency Injection. It is posted on IBM's developerWorks.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-zkcdi/

Star contributor Sotohiro has released Netbeans REM 5.0.2, an updated IDE for ZK 5.0.2.
Download REM 5.0.2 EE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rem1/files/rem%205.0.2/net-sf-rem502.nbm/download
Download REM 5.0.2 CE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rem1/files/rem%205.0.2/net-sf-rem502ce.nbm/download

PrimeScale AG, a consulting company based in Germany shares with us how its team found the productivity it was looking for using ZK, while building a configuration management database application with JasperReports, and Quartz.
http://www.zkoss.org/whosusingzk/PrimeScale_case_study.pdf

Jumper Chen demonstrates one of the upcoming tools for ZK testing. This tool enables us to test ZK applications using Selenium without the need for a UUID generator.

http://blog.zkoss.org/index.php/2010/05/25/zk-selenium-testing-without-uuids/

We are pleased to announce the release of our new book ZK 5.0.2 Component Reference which provides a structured reference for all the latest components included with ZK.

http://books.zkoss.org/wiki/ZK_Component_Reference

Riccardo Casatta shares with us a utility he built for extracting ZK components from a ZUL file which saves MVC pattern practioners the effort of making the declarations manually in a controller class.
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Component_Extractor

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK 5.0.2. ZK 5.0.2 is a maintenance release introducing 12 new features including auto pagesize for paging components and 72 bug fixes.

http://www.zkoss.org/release/rn-5.0.2.dsp
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/New_Features_of_ZK_5.0.2

BobZK provides us with the second part of his excellent introduction to using Python with ZK!

http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Python_With_ZK_Part2

ZK 5.0.2 will be released soon. Please try out CE, PE/EE, and give us your valuable feedback.

CE: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1/files/ZK%20Freshly/zk-5.0.2-FL-2010-04-30
PE/EE: http://www.zkoss.org/download/freshly/
Feedback: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=152762&atid=785191

Edwin Yu, Senior Software Engineer at Zebra Enterprise Solutions, shares with us his valuable experience upgrading from ZK 3.6 to ZK 5.0:
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Upgrading_to_ZK_5

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta, made compatible with ZK 5.0, gets a rewritten backend data model and formula evaluation engine which gives benefits such as support for rich text and the importing of Excel 2007 xlsx files.

Please see the release note here:
http://www.zkoss.org/release/zkspreadsheet-2.0.0-beta.dsp

ZK Spreadsheet 2.0 Beta is hosted on Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/zkspreadsheet/

We are pleased to announce the release of our maven server enabling you to easily manage your ZK projects. The ZK Maven repository is located at http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/. For details on how to use the repository please view http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/How-Tos/Installation/How_to_use_ZK_Maven_Repository.

We are pleased to announce the release of ZK Spring 3.0RC which brings with it support for Spring Core and Security 3.0. Since the last official release there have been 13 new features and 8 bug fixes.

Release notes: http://www.zkoss.org/release/zkspring-3.0rc.dsp
Download: http://www.zkoss.org/download/zkspring.dsp

Chanwit has released a new milestone version of the open-source ZK Grails project supporting ZK 5.0.1. This release introducing 5 new features and fixing 9 bugs.

http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/ReleaseNotes100M3

We are pleased to announce the release of the ZUL Testing Language (ZTL). ZTL is an open source tool which automates ZK testing using jUnit and Selenium frameworks. For more information please take a look at http://code.google.com/p/zk-ztl/.

Peter Kuo demonstrates how a ZK application can be clustered using the open source software, Terracotta, which scales web applications to large virtualized environments and clouds.
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/How_To_Run_ZK_With_Terracotta

Chanwit has released a new maintenance version of ZKGrails supporting ZK 3.6.4 and Grails 1.1.2 and above. For more information please consult the release notes.

http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/
http://code.google.com/p/zkgrails/wiki/ReleaseNotes078

Today we are pleased to announce the release of ZKCDI 1.0_1RC, a CDI extension for ZK based on the portable extension mechanism defined in JSR-299 of Java EE Platform 6.

http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_ZK_CDI