I've been watching the developments in the Rich Internet Applications arena for the past few years. Nevertheless I have to admit that ZK somehow managed to evade my attention.
Alright. They are at version 3.5 now.
From what I gathered from reading the materials on the dedicated website as well as the Wikipedia entry, the framework is positioned as a competitor to Adobe Flex and OpenLaszlo on one hand, and to GWT on the other.
Similar to Flex and OpenLaszlo, ZK leverages a proprietary markup language, ZUML in this case, to facilitate the creation of rich user interfaces. Similar to GWT, ZK is built upon Java-based Swing-like development paradigm.
The adoption section doesn't look particularly impressive. On the bright side, we don't know what's going on in the behind-the-firewall world a.k.a. enterprise applications.
Of particular interest to me was dynamic language support, Groovy specifically.
ZK seems to be a good choice for rapid RIA development, small isolated utility applications being perfect candidates to test drive the framework. I'll definitely give it a try when I have a chance.
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