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In this workshop we will explore different ways, tools and techniques how we could start an industrial Vaadin project. So often you can read a "HelloWorld" but what will be happen if you need to start an industrial project?
There are a few things around Vaadin that are needed to work effective. We will go through a full project, step by step and mostly with Open Source.
The story we are working on today will start with a few mocks. There is a database with a data set of customers. This should be displayed on screen in a table with a limited set of attributes.
The view on the data set can be filtered by typing into a text field. To clear the filter, there is a button.
An additional button is needed to add a new customer. The attributes for a new customer is shown in the mock below with the name CustomerForm
The CustomerForm should be visible, after
- the button for a new customer is pressed
- a data item in the table is selected and positioned on the right side of the screen.
After the one of the buttons, the CustomerForm should be invisible.
- save
- delete
- cancel
Additionally the CustomerForm should be invisbile again, after the data item in the table was de-selected.
The most components are Open Source, but a few things are optional and commercial. You can do everything without the commercial elements, but we will cover them as well and I will show you the benefits.
For this, you need a ProTools Trial License for all commercial Vaadin products. You can find them here
The Operating System could be Linux, Windows or OSX. You need installed and usable
- IDE - IntelliJ, Netbeans, Eclipse, .. I am using IntelliJ
- JDK 8 : This could be a Oracle or OpenJDK, with IBM JDK sometimes there are a few problems
- Docker
- git
- git UI (optional)
- maven
An easy way to ramp up a CI environment, that you can use not only for Vaadin projects is on github under the following address https://github.com/vaadin-developer/vaadin-dev-environment
This could be installed on your local machine as well on a dedicated server.