Suitable IDE: NetBeans 6.8,6.9,7.0 and 7.1

• NetBeans 6.8 has excellent XML editor,Javascript editor so,It is easy to edit .zul files.

REM History:

• Posted By: magic003
  Date: 2007-02-15 14:31
  Summary: Initial Codes Imported into SVN Repository
  
  
• Posted By: fredjeansun
  Date: 2007-12-05 07:15
  Summary: Introduction
  Hi, My name is Frederic Jean, and I will be joining magic003 in managing the REM project.
  
  
• Posted By: stera77
  Date: 2009-03-24 07:15
  Summary: REM 2.0.3 Released
  1) The ZUL editor now has a component palette.
  This allows developers to drag a component in the editor and get a code snippet generated.
  Many thanks to Ayman Elgharabawy for adding the palette in the editor.
  2) The ZK libraries have been upgraded to ZK 3.6.0. I have tested REM 2.0.3 against NetBeans 6.1 and NetBeans 6.5.
  Here are the highlights:
  3) And more,in this plugin included two template projects.
  To use this templates:
  for Application: File/new PRoject/Java Web/ZK360 Application
  for Demo Project: File/new PRoject/Sample/Java Web/ZK360 DemoAppli
  
  
• Posted By: stera77
  Date: 2009-04-10 12:16
  Summary: REM 3.0.1 is Releases
  I have tested REM 3.0.1 against NetBeans 6.5 and NetBeans 6.7M3.
  NetBeans6.7 aim to contain Groovy and Grails,so we will become to integrate ZK with Groovy and Grails easyly.
  

ZK RoadMap:

• Newest Version: of ZK 3.x line: ZK 3.6.4
• Current Version ZK 6.0.0
  
  
• Since ZK 5.0, the so-called Server+client Fusion architecture is introduced. Developers are allowed to access the client-side widgets directly if they want to. ZK Client Engine is based on jQuery.Technically you can use jQuery-compliant libraries and widgets.
  
  
• ZK 6 brings with it a whole host of changes, with up to approximately 100,000 lines have been changed between versions 5 and 6. This release comes with it some major changes including the introduction to a new databinding system 'ZK Bind' with the use of MVVM development pattern, generic support, a new templating system and others.

Current feature list:

• REM is a NetBeans module for ZK application development.
• It can be used to create ZK web Applications, ZUL and ZS documents.
• It supports ZUL syntax highlighting, auto indent, code folding, code hyperlink navigation and code completion.
• The ZUL editor now has a component palette. 
  This allows developers to drag a component in the editor and get a code snippet generated. 
  Many thanks to Ayman Elgharabawy for adding the palette in the editor.
• The ZK libraries have been upgraded to ZK 5.0.3.
• 4 template projects.1for Demo,3 for develope.
  

How to download and install REM:

1. download IDE:NetBeans
2. dowlload plugin:REM
3. use plugin manager
4. install plugin
5. use plugin manager
6. check plugin
7. use library manager
8. check libraey
9. install sample ZK Demo Project
10. install blank ZK Application
    

    Initial index.zul file does not include name space definition of ZK,
    so code completion does not work.
    If you create new zul file using next step:
    Web page–>Right Click–>new –>ZKProject zkCanvas,
    then the newly created zul file looks like below.
    ####################################
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <zk xmlns="http://www.zkoss.org/2005/zul">
    
    </zk>
    ####################################
    With this newly created zul file(with schema:xmlns=”http://www.zkoss.org/2005/zul”),
    code completion works fine.

Tutorials:　

1. How to migrate HSQLDB based tutorials to MySQL and Derby on NetBeans.
2. Guide to zkgrails(ZK plugin for Grails)
   This is a ZKGrails port of the program written in http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Use_Load-On-Demand_to_Handle_Huge_Data. This tutorial is working for ZKGrails 0.7.1 and later.
3. Guide to zkgrails(ZK plugin for Grails) on NetBeans
   This is NetBeans version of tutorial 2.
4. How to create ZK Client invoking a Web Service created using Metro on NetBeans6.7.
   Metro™ is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack.
   You can use it for every type of web service from simple to reliable, secured,
   and transacted web services that interoperate with .NET services.
   Metro bundles stable versions of JAX-WS RI and WSIT.
   This is sample of Web Service Client made by ZK.
5. MySQL,JavaEE6-EJB3.1 Version of ZKtodo-0.9.2