If the Vaadin Plugin is installed in Eclipse, you can create a new composite component as follows.
Select Project Explorer and select → to open the New window.
→ → in the main menu or right-click theIn the first, Select a wizard step, select → and click .
The Source folder is the root source directory where the new component will be created. This is by default the default source directory of your project.
Enter the Java Package under which the new component class should be created or select it by clicking the button. Also enter the class Name of the new component.
Finally, click
to create the component.A newly created composite component is opened in the Design window, as shown in Figure 7.1, “New Composite Component”.
You can observe that a component that you can edit with the visual designer has two tabs at the bottom of the view: Source and Design. These tabs allow switching between the source view and the visual design view.
If you later open the source file for editing, the Source and Design tabs should appear below the source editor. If they do not, right-click the file in the Project Explorer and select .