ZK: Ajax without JavaScript Framework [Paperback]

Henri Chen (Author), Robbie Cheng (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599012 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599013 | Publication Date: September 13, 2007 | Edition: 1

ZK is the most popular Sourceforge open-source Ajax Web framework that enables rich user interface for Web applications with no JavaScript and little programming. It’s also at times the second most popular SourceForge project overall. This firstPress book (PDF eBook with Print on Demand (POD) option) will be first and probably only book to market on ZK.

This book shows you how to use this simplest Ajax framework to write real world responsive web application, and it covers ZK's more than 70 XUL and 80 XHTML rich GUI components.

It’s authoritatively written by co-founder/lead of ZK project.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Henri Chen is the co-founder of the ZK Ajax framework. He has more than 20 years programming experiences in 6502/x86 assembly, Pascal, C/C++, and Java. He is expert in thin client, embedded system, and Ajax web applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599012
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599013
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,756,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good as an introduction, but far too thin for practical use., February 17, 2008

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Scott Naef (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZK: Ajax without JavaScript Framework (Paperback)

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 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick Overview, Printed Oddly, October 1, 2007

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W. G. Iverson (Kirkland, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZK: Ajax without JavaScript Framework (Paperback)

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 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not waste your money, July 12, 2009

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Rosina Ivan Ignazio "Rosina Ivan" (Italy, Milan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZK: Ajax without JavaScript Framework (Paperback)

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 !