ZK Developer's Guide

Online Media Library
The directory lib contains the libraries of the ZK framework. For the first time it's
wise to copy all JAR files from the ZK framework distribution. If you unzip the
distribution of the version 2.3.0 the structure should look like the figure below. The
structure below shows the structure of the ZK distribution. Here you can get the files
you need for your own application.
For our example, you should copy all JAR files from lib, ext, and zkforge to the
WEB-INF/lib directory of your application. It's important that the libraries from ext
and zkforge are copied direct to WEB-INF/lib. Additionally copy the directories tld
and xsd to the WEB-INF directory of your application.
Now after the copy process, we have to create the deployment descriptor
(web.xml) for the web application. Here you can use web.xml from the demo
application, which is provided from the ZK framework. For our first steps, we need
no zk.xml (that configuration file is optional in a ZK application).
The application itself must be run inside a JEE (Java Enterprise Edition)
Webcontainer. For our example, we used the Tomcat container from the Apache
project (http://tomcat.apache.org). However, you can run the application in
each JEE container that follows the Java Servlet Specification 2.4 (or higher) and runs
under a Java Virtual Machine 1.4 (or higher). We create the zk-media.xml file for
Tomcat, which is placed in conf/Catalina/localhost of the Tomcat directory.
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