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Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8

By : Alejandro Duarte
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Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8

By: Alejandro Duarte

Overview of this book

Vaadin is an open-source Java framework used to build modern user interfaces. Vaadin 8 simplifies application development and improves user experience. The book begins with an overview of the architecture of Vaadin applications and the way you can organize your code in modules.Then it moves to the more advanced topics about advanced topics such as internationalization, authentication, authorization, and database connectivity. The book also teaches you how to implement CRUD views, how to generate printable reports, and how to manage data with lazy loading. By the end of this book you will be able to architect, implement, and deploy stunning Vaadin applications, and have the knowledge to master web development with Vaadin.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we developed a self-packaged UI component (a main screen component), created a multi-module Maven project, and learned how to implement application-specific modules that are discovered and registered with a Vaadin application at run-time. While explaining these concepts, we also saw some Java 8 and Vaadin 8 snippets of code that highlighted good practices such as making your code more maintainable and extensible.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to implement a login form with multi-language capabilities.