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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

The Time It application


A couple of years ago I was working with some friends on a personal Java project. We used to meet every Saturday to review what we had done before building the entire system. Let me introduce you to my friends: Susan Obstinate and Mark Nowsitall (weird last names, aren't they?).

"I've spent the entire week writing this code, but it's ready now," said Susan with an embittered tone.

"Let me see how you handled that," replied Mark suspiciously. Though they didn't seem to be, they were a couple.

So Susan proudly showed us her piece of code:

// some nasty code was here (censored for respect of the reader)
public String getUglyUrl(long total) {
    String url = "http://localhost/app/someservice?code=";
    
    for(long i = 0; i < total; i++) {
        url += someTrickyMath(i);
    }
    
    return url;
}

public String someTrickyMath(long i) {
    // (censored)
}

"We can use an int object type instead of long for the loop in your getUglyUrl method," instantly affirmed Mark...