Vaadin Installation Package
While the recommended way to create a Vaadin project and install the libraries is to use an IDE plugin or a dependency management system, such as Maven, Vaadin is also available as a ZIP distribution package.
You can download the newest Vaadin installation package from the download page at http://vaadin.com/download/. Please use a ZIP decompression utility available in your operating system to extract the files from the ZIP package.
Package Contents
- README.TXT
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This README file gives simple instructions for installing Vaadin in your project.
- release-notes.html
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The Release Notes contain information about the new features in the particular release, give upgrade instructions, describe compatibility, etc. Please open the HTML file with a web browser.
- license.html
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Apache License version 2.0. Please open the HTML file with a web browser.
- lib folder
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All dependency libraries required by Vaadin are contained within the lib folder.
- *.jar
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Vaadin libraries, as described in "Overview of Vaadin Libraries".
Installing the Libraries
You can install the Vaadin ZIP package in a few simple steps:
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Copy the JAR files at the package root folder to the WEB-APP/lib web library folder in the project. Some of the libraries are optional, as explained in "Overview of Vaadin Libraries".
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Also copy the dependency JAR files at the lib folder to the WEB-APP/lib web library folder in the project.
The location of the WEB-APP/lib folder depends on the project organization, which depends on the development environment.
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In Eclipse Dynamic Web Application projects: WebContent/WEB-INF/lib.
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In Maven projects: src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib.