Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

246 Pages·2013·3.411 MB·English

by  Alejandro Duarte

Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example
Beginner's Guide
Build exciting Vaadin applications in no time
Alejandro Duarte
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide
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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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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Writing Your First Vaadin-powered Application 7
Creating and running Vaadin applications in Eclipse 8
Installing Eclipse 8
Time for action – downloading and installing Eclipse 8
Installing the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse 8
Time for action – installing the plugin 8
Installing Run Jetty Run plugin 10
Time for action – installing Jetty 10
Creating a new Vaadin project in Eclipse 10
Time for action – creating a new Vaadin project 11
Deploying and running Vaadin applications in Eclipse 11
Time for action – deploying and running 11
Creating and running Vaadin applications in NetBeans 12
Installing NetBeans 12
Time for action – downloading and installing NetBeans 12
Creating a new Vaadin project in NetBeans 13
Time for action – creating a new Vaadin project 13
Deploying and running Vaadin applications in NetBeans 15
Time for action – deploying and testing 15
Creating and running Vaadin applications using Maven 15
Vaadin 7 Maven archetype 16
Time for action – creating a new Vaadin project 16
Deploying and running Vaadin applications with Maven 16
Time for action – deploying and running 17
Generated application explained 17
Buttons 20
Labels 21