Book Description
Take the shortcut to developing rich internet applications in pure Java. Vaadin makes it easy and this cookbook makes it easier still with its practical recipes and straightforward approach.
- Covers exciting features such as using drag and n anddrop, creating charts, custom components, lazy loading, server-push functionality, and more
- Tips for facilitating the development and testing of Vaadin applications
- Enhance your applications with Spring, Grails, or Roo integration
In Detail
It is really expensive and demanding to develop Rich Internet Applications from scratch. Vaadin is an amazing framework that contains many ready-made components for the creation of user interfaces. Applications created in Vaadin are compatible with all the latest versions of web browsers. Although the screenshots in this book are from Chrome, examples can also run on other browsers like Firefox Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and Opera.
"Vaadin 7 Cookbook" contains many practical recipes that we have gathered during the development of Vaadin applications. This book will help you to take your learning experience to the next level by giving you many solutions to the common problems faced along with explanations. There is even more than that. Vaadin 7 Cookbook goes beyond the basics and shows you how to build Vaadin application for real-world scenarios.
"Vaadin 7 Cookbook" starts with the creation of a project in various tools and languages then moves to components, layouting, events, data binding, and custom widgets. Vaadin, together with Grails, is a powerful tool for the rapid development of RIA applications and this is described in a chapter on how to work with GORM, Service, compiling a widgetset. The quality and stability of the application, testing the Vaadin code, and data management of Vaadin is also explained in detail.
"Vaadin 7 Cookbook" is focused on learning and understanding how to work with Vaadin as well as trying out Vaadin with other technologies such as Grails.
Table of Contents
- Vaadin 7 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Vaadin 7 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Creating a Project in Vaadin
- 2. Layouts
- Introduction
- Creating an adjustable layout using split panels
- Creating a custom layout
- Controlling components over the CSS layout
- Using CSS layouts for mobile devices
- Binding tabs with a hard URL
- Using Navigator for creating bookmarkable applications with back-forward button support
- Aligning components on a page
- Creating UI collections of components
- Dragging-and-dropping between different layouts
- Building any layout with AbsoluteLayout
- 3. UI Components
- Introduction
- Viewing details of items in ListSelect
- Inserting a button to remove a table row
- Creating a line chart with Flot
- Creating a pie chart with Highcharts
- Drag-and-drop from the desktop
- Using DateField with Joda-Time DateTime
- Zooming with the slider
- Restricting buttons in Rich text area
- Styling components with CSS
- 4. Custom Widgets
- 5. Events
- Introduction
- Responding immediately to an event in TextArea
- Changing Label to TextField by double-clicking
- Lazy loading in a table
- Reordering columns and rows in a table
- Customizing shortcuts
- Adding click listener to the Link component
- Creating a custom context menu
- Updating messages in the menu bar using the ICEPush add-on
- Updating the noticeboard using the Refresher add-on
- 6. Messages
- Introduction
- Showing validation messages
- Styling system messages
- Showing a login form in pop-up view
- Customizing tray notifications
- Making a confirmation window
- Showing a rich tooltip with an image
- Informing about file transfers by a progress bar
- Waiting for an indeterminate process
- Showing information about browsers
- 7. Working with Forms
- 8. Spring and Grails Integration
- Introduction
- Setting up a Vaadin project with Spring in Maven
- Handling login with Spring
- Accessing a database with Spring
- Internationalizing Vaadin applications with Spring
- Vaadin and Spring injector
- Internationalizing Vaadin in Grails
- Using Grails ORM for Vaadin application
- Using Grails services in Vaadin
- Adding a Vaadin add-on into Grails project
- 9. Data Management
- 10. Architecture and Performance
- Introduction
- Building the core
- The Login form with Model View Presenter
- Model View Presenter for a view with two panels
- Unit testing in an MVP pattern
- Improving the application's startup time
- Avoid sluggish UI – lazy loaded tables
- Avoid sluggish UI – paged tables
- Optimizing Vaadin applications for search engines
- 11. Facilitating Development
- 12. Fun
- Index