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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Vaadin is a mature, open-source, and powerful Java framework used to build modern web applications in plain Java. Vaadin brings back the fun of programming UI interfaces to the web universe. No HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript, no XML. Vaadin lets you implement web user interfaces using an object oriented model, similar to desktop technologies such as Swing and AWT. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide is an engaging guide that will teach you how to develop web applications in minutes. With this book, you will Develop useful applications and learn basics of Java web development. By the end of the book you will be able to build Java web applications that look fantastic. The book begins with simple examples using the most common Vaadin UI components and quickly move towards more complex applications as components are introduced chapter-by-chapter. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide shows you how to use Eclipse, Netbeans, and Maven to create Vaadin projects. It then demonstrates how to use labels, text fields, buttons, and other input components. Once you get a grasp of the basic usage of Vaadin, the book explains Vaadin theory to prepare you for the rest of the trip that will enhance your knowledge of Vaadin UI components and customization techniques.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Writing Your First Vaadin-powered Application

So you want to start creating cool web applications in Java? Well, you've come to the right place. Vaadin is a mature, powerful Java framework to build modern web applications leveraging your Java programming skills, and understanding of concepts such as listeners, components, and other well-known constructions acquired from the desktop APIs such as Swing and AWT.

First things first. Downloading, installing, and configuring your development environment are the first steps to get started with Vaadin. In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating and running Vaadin applications in Eclipse

  • Creating and running Vaadin applications in NetBeans

  • Creating and running Vaadin applications using Maven

  • Generated application explained

  • Buttons

  • Labels

  • Text fields

  • Notifications

We will cover the details of configuring your development environment using Eclipse, NetBeans, and Maven. Feel free to jump straight to the section explaining your favorite IDE and skip those covering the other ones.

Let's get our hands dirty!