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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

About the Reviewers

Martin Cremer is working as an architect for a company in the financial sector. His work focuses on maintaining and developing reference architecture for web-based enterprise applications with Vaadin as well as supporting developers in their daily work.

Max Matveev is a software development expert with 12 years of expertise in software development. Originally from Khabarovsk, Russia, he is currently living in Zurich, Switzerland and working for one of the largest Swiss banks as the Technical Lead.

With main focus on Enterprise Java, he is experienced in all areas of enterprise software development ranging from backend data processing to modern rich UI web applications.

Always looking for the best user experience possible he is one of those who allowed Vaadin to become one of the bank's standard frameworks for building UI.

In addition to his main work, Max is also author of some popular (with over one million downloads) indie iOS applications. Data processing requirements for the huge user base allowed him to become one of the main pre-production tester of Jelastic SaaS platform during the platform's beta period.

Michael Vogt started in 2000 at Apple, Germany as a WebObjects developer. Since then, he worked in many different companies and countries, mostly as a freelancer on GWT projects. Currently he works in the services department of Vaadin.