-------------------------------------------------- PROJECT DISCONTINUED! Replaced by the official Vaadin CDI plugin and CDI Properties & CDI MVP add-ons -------------------------------------------------- CDI is a JavaEE standard that consists of two fundamental parts: It allows you to bind bean instances to contexts with well-defined life-cycles and inject instances to beans in a type-safe way. CDI Utils add-on provides some utilities for CDI/Vaadin applications: -Custom CDI Context for Vaadin -Lightweight MVP framework -Producers for declaratively defined Vaadin components (@Preconfigured -annotation) -Built in i18n of @Preconfigured components Quick start (CDI Utils 2): 1. Add empty beans.xml -file (CDI marker file) to your project under WEB-INF dir 2. Add cdi-utils*.jar to your project 3. Annotate your UI with @UIScoped 4. Give the Vaadin servlet an init parameter "UIProvider" with the value "org.vaadin.virkki.cdiutils.application.CdiUIProvider" 5. Deploy to JavaEE/Web profile -compatible container Quick start (CDI Utils 1): 1. Add empty beans.xml -file (CDI marker file) to your project under WEB-INF dir 2. Add cdiutils*.jar to your project 3. Create your Application class by extending AbstractCdiApplication 4. Use CdiApplicationServlet instead of the normal ApplicationServlet 5. Deploy to JavaEE/Web profile -compatible container (CDI apps can also be run on servlet containers etc. but some further configuration is required) See the example projects at: CDI Utils 2: https://github.com/tomivirkki/cdiutils-addressbook/tree/vaadin7 CDI Utils 1: https://github.com/tomivirkki/cdiutils-addressbook