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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

Time for action – creating a new Vaadin project


Steps for creating a new Vaadin project are as follows:

  1. Open a new terminal in your operating system and move to the directory you want your project to be created in.

  2. Run the command line shown as follows:

    mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin -DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-application -DarchetypeVersion=7.0.0 -Dpackaging=war
    
  3. Enter your preferred groupId and press Enter. For example, com.example.welcome.

  4. Enter welcome as artifactId and press Enter.

  5. Press Enter to accept the default version.

  6. Press Enter to accept the default package.

  7. Confirm that everything is OK by typing Y and press Enter.

What just happened?

If you can see the rewarding BUILD SUCCESS message, you have successfully created your first Vaadin project using Maven. You must have a new directory with all the generated files for your project.

Deploying and running Vaadin applications with Maven

Deploying to Jetty is so common that we just can't break the old tradition of using it to test our application.