Vaadin 7 Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Creating a Project in Vaadin
• Introduction
• Creating a project in Eclipse IDE
• Generating a Vaadin project in Maven archetype
• Building a Vaadin application with Gradle
• Using Vaadin with Scala
• Running Vaadin on Grails

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 4: Custom Widgets
• Introduction
• Creating a TextField with counter
• Creating a TextField only for digits
• Creating a chroma-hash password field
• Creating a tri-state checkbox using JavaScript
• Styling widgets
• Speeding up widget set compilation

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 7: Working with Forms
• Introduction
• Creating a simple form
• Generating fields from a bean
• Binding fields to a bean
• Using field validation
• Using bean validation
• Creating a custom validation
• Creating a CRUD form
• Filtering items using ComboBox

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 9: Data Management
• Introduction
• Binding property to a component
• Binding items to a component
• Binding a container to a component
• Creating a complex table – CRUD II
• Filtering data in the table
• Using converters
• Storing the last selected tab name in cookies

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 11: Facilitating Development
• Introduction
• The basics of test-driven development in Vaadin
• The basics of mocking in Vaadin
• Testing a table with a container
• Testing the UI with TestBench
• Recompiling widgetsets in Maven
• Auto-reloading changes in Maven
• Blocking uncaught exceptions in the production mode

• Chapter 12: Fun
• Introduction
• Magic tricks
• Can you raed tihs?
• Goodbye, world!

• Index