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1.3. Support for the Eclipse IDE
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While Vaadin is not bound to any specific IDE, and you can in fact easily use it without any IDE altogether, we provide special support for the Eclipse IDE, which has become the standard environment for Java development. The support includes:

  • Import the installation package as a QuickStart demo project in Eclipse

  • Install the Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse, which allows you to:

    • Create new Vaadin projects

    • Create custom themes

    • Create custom client-side widgets and widget sets

    • Edit components with a visual (WYSIWYG) editor

    • Easily upgrade to a newer version of the Vaadin library

The Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse is our recommended way of installing Vaadin; the actual installation package contains demos and documentation that are available also from the website, so you do not normally need to download and install it, unless you want to experiment with the demos or try debugging.

Installing and updating the plugin is covered in Section 2.2.5, “Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse” and the creation of a new Vaadin project using the plugin in Section 2.4.1, “Creating the Project”. See Section 8.4, “Creating a Theme in Eclipse”, Section 10.2, “Doing It the Simple Way in Eclipse”, and Chapter 7, Visual User Interface Design with Eclipse (experimental) for instructions on using the different features of the plugin.

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Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
1.2. Example Application Walkthrough
1.3. Support for the Eclipse IDE
1.4. Goals and Philosophy
1.5. Background
2. Getting Started with Vaadin
2.1. Installing Vaadin
2.2. Setting up the Development Environment
2.3. QuickStart with Eclipse
2.4. Your First Project with Vaadin
3. Architecture
3.1. Overview
3.2. Technological Background
3.3. Applications as Java Servlet Sessions
3.4. Client-Side Engine
3.5. Events and Listeners
4. Writing a Web Application
4.1. Overview
4.2. Managing the Main Window
4.3. Child Windows
4.4. Handling Events with Listeners
4.5. Referencing Resources
4.6. Shutting Down an Application
4.7. Handling Errors
4.8. Setting Up the Application Environment
5. User Interface Components
5.1. Overview
5.2. Interfaces and Abstractions
5.3. Common Component Features
5.4. Label
5.5. Link
5.6. TextField
5.7. RichTextArea
5.8. Date and Time Input
5.9. Button
5.10. CheckBox
5.11. Selecting Items
5.12. Table
5.13. Tree
5.14. MenuBar
5.15. Embedded
5.16. Upload
5.17. Form
5.18. ProgressIndicator
5.19. Slider
5.20. Component Composition with CustomComponent
6. Managing Layout
6.1. Overview
6.2. Window and Panel Root Layout
6.3. VerticalLayout and HorizontalLayout
6.4. GridLayout
6.5. FormLayout
6.6. Panel
6.7. SplitPanel
6.8. TabSheet
6.9. Accordion
6.10. Layout Formatting
6.11. Custom Layouts
7. Visual User Interface Design with Eclipse (experimental)
7.1. Overview
7.2. Creating a New CustomComponent
7.3. Using The Visual Editor
7.4. Structure of a Visually Editable Component
8. Themes
8.1. Overview
8.2. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
8.3. Creating and Using Themes
8.4. Creating a Theme in Eclipse
9. Binding Components to Data
9.1. Overview
9.2. Properties
9.3. Holding properties in Items
9.4. Collecting items in Containers
10. Developing Custom Components
10.1. Overview
10.2. Doing It the Simple Way in Eclipse
10.3. Google Web Toolkit Widgets
10.4. Integrating a GWT Widget
10.5. Defining a Widget Set
10.6. Server-Side Components
10.7. Using a Custom Component
10.8. GWT Widget Development
11. Advanced Web Application Topics
11.1. Special Characteristics of AJAX Applications
11.2. Application-Level Windows
11.3. Embedding Applications in Web Pages
11.4. Debug and Production Mode
11.5. Resources
11.6. Shortcut Keys
11.7. Printing
11.8. Portal Integration
11.9. Google App Engine Integration
11.10. Common Security Issues
11.11. URI Fragment and History Management with UriFragmentUtility
11.12. Capturing HTTP Requests
A. User Interface Definition Language (UIDL)
A.1. API for Painting Components
A.2. JSON Rendering
B. Songs of Vaadin
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