Preface

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 such as Firefox Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and Opera.

The 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 providing you with many solutions to the commonly-faced problems along with explanations. There is even more than that. This book goes beyond the basics and shows you how to build Vaadin applications for real-world scenarios.

The 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. This is described in the chapter on how to work with GORM. The quality and stability of the application, testing the Vaadin code, and the data management of Vaadin is also explained in detail.

This book is focused on learning and understanding how to work with Vaadin as well as trying out Vaadin with other technologies such as Grails.