RIAs using the ZK plugin for Grails
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
About this Presentation
ZK is a set of custom tags and controllers that allow users to design Rich Internet Applications without writing the Ajax or JavaScript code directly. The ZKGrails plugin makes it easy to add ZK user interfaces to a Grails project. ZK is particularly good at designing data entry screens familiar to users of other technologies.
ZK views look very much like desktop applications and are automatically event-driven using Ajax calls. The plugin is Convention over Configuration meets Direct Ajax. Build powerful user interfaces using ZK composers, ZUL pages, and JavaScript event handlers.
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.