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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

Widgets


You might think:

Reader: Cool! Vaadin can compile Java classes into JavaScript. But we didn't make any compilation of this kind in the previous chapters, and we created several applications.

Author: Well, in previous chapters we were using only server components.

Reader: Server what?

Author: Server components, or simply components, such as Label, Button, and others, they are Java classes which are not compiled into JavaScript.

Reader: That's obvious; we didn't make any compilation to JavaScript.

Author: That's right. Vaadin team performed the compilation for us and packaged the generated "widget set" inside one of the jars we are using.

Reader: Wait! What is a widget set?

Author: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm kind of a messy teacher. Well, what you see on the pages in your browser are widgets. A widget is like a piece of JavaScript that was generated by the Vaadin client compiler. A widget set, is then a collection of several widgets. At the end, the widget set is what the Vaadin client compiler produces...