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ZK

Open source Java framework for building enterprise web and mobile apps
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What is ZK?

It is renowned for "Ajax without JavaScript", enabling developers to build rich Web applications without any knowledge of Ajax and JavaScript. It is used for building enterprise web and mobile apps.
ZK is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.

Who uses ZK?

Companies
6 companies reportedly use ZK in their tech stacks, including Insoft, Business Filemanager, and ZK.

Developers
27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use ZK.

ZK Integrations

jQuery, Spring Boot, Scala, Java EE, and Spring Security are some of the popular tools that integrate with ZK. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with ZK.
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ZK's Features

  • jQuery, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, JavaEE, Grails, Scala

ZK Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to ZK?
GWT
It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript.
Vaadin
It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
JSF
It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community
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ZK's Followers
46 developers follow ZK to keep up with related blogs and decisions.