Vaadin's main advantage over other GUI toolkits it's its great element design and graphics.
Besides the framework itself, various add-ons are also available for extending base functionality.
Vaading is actually based on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Here are some key features of "Vaadin":
· Cross-browser tested components
· Compatible with most application servers
· Comes packed with lots of ready-made components
· Secure Web application architecture
· Integrated with many IDEs (Maven, Eclipse, NetBeans)
· Mobile device and touch friendly
· Easy CSS styling
· MVC (model-view-controller) architecture
· Deep-linking support, and many more
· Lazy loading
Requirements:
· Java 5 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Replace client-side collection usage with native counterparts
· Cache result of addAllStateFields
· Avoid duplicate maps in ConnectorMap
· Don't fetch old bean property value if it is not needed for deserializing
· Vaadin Upload crashes on IOException
· CacheUpdateException hides original exception
· Added lightweight profiling to the framework
· ParseException does not output file name
· Referencing multiple parameters in multiple lines inside the same mixin doesn't work
· Trying to use a mixin with more parameters that the mixin accepts causes an IndexOutOfBoundsException
· NPE in LayoutManager when quickly switching tabs in theme test
· TableDragColumn test fails
· NPE on client side if TextField value is null
· Minus sign removed from negative rem values
· Avoid adding tooltip handlers to all new widgets
· Don't measure VUI widget during updateFromUIDL
· Analyze layouts produces an empty screen
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