DetachedTabs - Vaadin Add-on Directory
Keep your tabs separate from the sheetThe DetachedTabs is a sort of TabSheet, with the tabs detached from its sheet.
This component is merely the tabs for a tabsheet. The sheet itself is an external object. These two may be placed anywhere, independent of each other.
This mechanism allows for a more flexible layouts, and you may place other widgets right alongside it, or somewhere totally disconnected, and you are not constrained by the "bounding box" presented by the TabSheet's tabs+sheet combination.