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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)

Implementing CRUD User Interfaces

Most business applications have to deal with data manipulation. Users are able to see, change, delete, and add data. All these actions are executed according to and in the context of a set of rules dictated by the business. In its more fundamental form, business applications include graphical user interfaces to perform CRUD actions over the data. CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. This chapter explores the design and implementation of CRUD views.

We'll start with a quick discussion about CRUD views from a User Experience (UX) perspective. Then, we will move on to how to design and implement CRUD user interfaces using two different UI designs. This chapter also explains the basics of data binding, shows how to use the Java Bean Validation API, and demonstrates how to render UI components inside Grid components.

This chapter...