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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

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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)
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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Time for action – separating business classes from UI classes


Vaadin is mostly about UI. Vaadin's motto thinking of U and I is not in vain. I said mostly because you can additionally find a bunch of useful add-ons to deal with server-side technologies. Even Vaadin itself ships with some data components.

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There are lots of integration add-ons for Vaadin. For instance, you can integrate with technologies such as Groovy, Spring Framework, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, Lucene, Google App Engine Datastore, Quartz, JasperReports, JFreeChart, OpenLayers, Google Maps, OpenID, and even Twitter! All this with one hand tied behind your back. Visit https://vaadin.com/directory.

Most, if not all, applications have some kind of business logic. That is, something to do with the application's data. If you are an experienced developer you will agree with me that separating business logic from UI logic makes a lot of sense. For the "Time It" application, we will use two Java packages to separate business logic from...

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