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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
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.
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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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Author
Alejandro Duarte
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About the Author
Alejandro Duarte learned how to program at age 13 using the Basic language on a black screen with a blinking cursor. He used to spend hours thinking of ideas for software that would be good to have and even more hours bringing these ideas to life. Alejandro graduated from National University of Colombia with a BS in Computer Science and has been involved in many Java-related software development projects. He first started working with Struts 2 and quickly switched to more RIA friendly frameworks such as Grails, jQuery, GWT, and Vaadin. Alejandro is the author of the Enterprise App for Vaadin add-on and InfoDoc Pro, both open source projects based on the Vaadin framework. He currently works as a developer for several companies and customers mainly in Colombia, Chile, India, Kenya, and the UK.
When not writing code, Alejandro splits his free time between his family, his beautiful girlfriend, and his passion for the electric guitar. You can contact him at <[email protected]> or through his personal blog http://www.alejandrodu.com. If you are feeling social, you can follow him on Twitter at @alejandro_du.
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank the entire team from Packt Publishing, Ashvini, Martin, Shiksha, and Arun, thanks for trusting me. I thank all the technical reviewers and proofreaders for providing me with valuable feedback from which I have learned a lot. Thanks to Mario Pérez and Camilo Gonzáles from National University of Colombia for introducing me as a professional to the world of software development. Thanks to Colombitrade and all Enterprise App for Vaadin users for their support and confidence. A special thanks to the Vaadin team and community for providing such a terrific framework and knowledge base with tons of articles and useful resources. Hope this book reciprocally contributes back to the community.
I can't thank my parents enough for being so helpful and supportive. I would never have written this book without their constant support and exemplary way of teaching. There's no better teacher than a good parent. A special thanks to my brothers, Juan and Edgar, and my cousins, Marcelo, Camilo, and Jonathan, with whom I took my first steps in programming and created a fictional software development company when we were children, DPA Software. Thanks to my sister for her amusing company while writing this book. Last but not least, thank you Viviana for your encouragement when reaching deadlines and for all those beautiful moments you have gave me.
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.
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Preface
Vaadin is an open source framework to ease development of Java web applications that provides a programming model close to Swing or AWT. Vaadin is licensed under the Apache License, is well documented, comes with out-of-the-box theming facilities, and is supported by a committed company and a vibrant community contributing to the framework through forums and hundreds of add-ons.
Vaadin allows developers to write web applications using only Java. Of course, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are building blocks of web application development, however, by using Vaadin, developers will be maintaining Java code most of the time. The UI layer is implemented using the object-oriented paradigm. This allows developers to bring all the object-oriented knowledge out there directly to their UI layers. Developers missing the joy of using Swing or AWT to build desktop applications when creating web applications usually love Vaadin.
This book will teach you how to develop Java web applications in minutes. Starting from chapter one, you will begin with simple examples and quickly move towards more complex applications covering UI components, themes, custom components, and client-side applications.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Writing Your First Vaadin-powered Application, explains how to set up your development environment and create your first Vaadin project.
Chapter 2, Using Input Components and Forms – Time to Listen to Users, explains basic usage of input components and the Vaadin data model.
Chapter 3, Arranging Components into Layouts, covers layout components, panels, pop-up windows, tab sheets, and accordions.
Chapter 4, Using Vaadin Navigation Capabilities, deals with using Vaadin to build more website-like applications.
Chapter 5, Using Tables – Time to Talk to Users, covers one of the most useful and powerful UI components in Vaadin: the table component.
Chapter 6, Adding More Components, introduces several UI components such as trees, progress indicators, icons, sliders, color pickers, images, web content, and drag and drop.
Chapter 7, Customizing UI Components – Time to Theme it, covers Vaadin theme creation using CSS and Sass.
Chapter 8, Developing Your Own Components, introduces the strategies to develop pure client-side applications and custom components.
What you need for this book
To run the examples and follow the tutorials in this book, you will need Java SDK installed. You will need also Eclipse, NetBeans, or Maven.
Who this book is for
This book is ideal for developers with a good knowledge of Java willing to build rich-Internet applications using Vaadin. Basic understanding of HTML and CSS is useful but not required to understand the content of the book.
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Chapter 1. Writing Your First Vaadin-powered Application
So you want to start creating cool web applications in Java? Well, you've come to the right place. Vaadin is a mature, powerful Java framework to build modern web applications leveraging your Java programming skills, and understanding of concepts such as listeners, components, and other well-known constructions acquired from the desktop APIs such as Swing and AWT.
First things first. Downloading, installing, and configuring your development environment are the first steps to get started with Vaadin. In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
We will cover the details of configuring your development environment using Eclipse, NetBeans, and Maven. Feel free to jump straight to the section explaining your favorite IDE and skip those covering the other ones.
Let's get our hands dirty!
Creating and running Vaadin applications in Eclipse
If you are using NetBeans, another IDE, or no IDE at all, you can safely skip this section.
Installing Eclipse
Just in case you haven't already done so, you will need to download and install Eclipse, the preferred IDE for developing Vaadin applications.
Time for action – downloading and installing Eclipse
Steps to download and install Eclipse are as follows:
What just happened?
Guess what? We've just downloaded and installed Eclipse. Seriously, that was the very first step; now we need to install the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse.
Installing the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse
In this section we will see how to install the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse.
Time for action – installing the plugin
Steps to install the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse are as follows:
Tip
I always keep processes like this running in the background. This helps me to be more productive because I can read or write some code, change configuration, deploy to a server, or perform any other IDE related action while having the background process moving forward.
What just happened?
We've just prepared Eclipse to start hacking! Using the Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse we'll be able to create new Vaadin projects, custom components, and themes. But before that, we will have to install a web server to deploy our Vaadin applications.
Note
You might have noted that the Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse installed an additional plugin: IvyDE. Ivy is a tool for managing dependencies, usually all the JAR files that your project needs. Don't worry too much if you don't know Ivy, just go through the following steps and we will get some fun in a couple of minutes, I promise.
Installing Run Jetty Run plugin
Although we can deploy to most Java
