Publisher review:ztemplates is a framework for creating web-applications. ztemplates is a framework for creating web-applications. ztemplates is a servlet.It is based on Java 1.5 and uses reflection, generics and annotations to enable you to program against pojo's (plain old java objects). That means you need not extend any special classes.
You tell the framework what your pojo's are for by annotating your classes/methods and by implementing tagging interfaces (that means interfaces with no methods, like Serializable). This approach was chosen over pure annotations because it is more typesafe and can be checked at compiletime.
ztemplates keeps the logic in pojos and the rendering is done in Apache Velocity or JSP. It is easy to write and use a renderer for other technologies.
Features
- pojo progamming The development of a ztemplates application is Java-centric in the sense that every request passes through one or many pojos. The pojos do the work and expose data to its rendering part. The pojo-renderer (JSP or velocity or whatever you like) renders the exposed data to a String, in most cases html.
- form-processing with input-validation on form submit and onChange using Ajax with validation code on server side and status message display for input-fields and actions.
- security with annotations. Just tag your class/operation/property with ZSecure(role="the-role") and nobody can access your protected class/operation/property without having the role. ztemplates automatically appends zs to secured url, so you can map the 'zs' extension in your web.xml to a realm.
- url parameter mapping url parameters are automatically mapped to pojo-properties and operation-calls.
- refactoring-safe urls Every url in your application is mapped to a pojo. Urls are created in the pojos by the framework and exposed to the context. If you rename/move your pojos the urls pointing to them remain valid.
- url aliasing - search engine optimisations By using the ZAlias annotation you can control the appearance of your urls. By aliasing a pojo with search-engine relevant words you can increase your page-rank.
- url encryption Url query strings can be automatically encrypted, so they can not be manipulated by clients.
- gui components like tree and tabpane have been implemented in the sample application.
- back/reload handling ztemplates keeps server-side state. To keep it consistent with the client-side, ztemplates uses a version counter. Hitting back/reload in the browser will not corrupt the application, but will instead display the current state.
- support for i18n when using ZProperty
ztemplates 0.9.0 is a Java script for XML Tools scripts design by ztemplates.org.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / BSD / Solaris.
ztemplates is a framework for creating web-applications.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / BSD / Solaris
ztemplates 0.9.0 script details 
