How would you build a real database driven application using ZK? This article introduces the "ZkFoodToGo" example application that demonstrates one approach. "Food To Go" is a fictional fast food ordering system described by Chris Richardson in his book POJOs In Action. The book makes extensive use of Spring, JUnit and mock objects to demonstrate three alternative ORM frameworks: Hibernate, JDO and iBatis. It comprises of mock object JUnit tests demonstrating POJO design patterns and ORM best practices. The book does not supply a user interface nor a complete set of application Use Cases. To create a small but complete web application some simple methods were added to the persistence code to support the screens. ZkFoodToGo uses a POJO domain model, event driven MVC, Spring (IoV pattern), a POJO Facade (with an AOP transaction manager) and Hibernate. The application architecture is well documented both on the ZK wiki and within the book
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