I have been trying with no success for four hours to get the Vaadin TreeTable widget to compile. Can someone please just provide me with a jar I can install for the GWT part of the system which I can install somewhere. The installation is soooo hard to do. I had problems in the past and am having problems again. I tried dropping the TreeTable jar into the web-inf/lib/ directory and it didn’t get auto compiled even though I had all the latest Vaadin integration plugins.
The document referenced by David is more about getting started developing Vaadin code itself, so it might be more complicated than necessary.
I assume you are using Eclipse and have created the project with the “New Vaadin Project…” wizard.
See
the book section on recompiling widgetsets and the
directory help page on using add-ons. Your project needs to have its own widgetset file which points to the default widgetset and the add-on widgetset, but this can be automatically created by the Eclipse plugin when compiling the widgetset.
If you think it is hard to get the add-on into use, definitely do not try to get client side debugging working with a pre-Vaadin 6 version (back then called IT Mill Toolkit), just three years ago, when there was no Eclipse plugin and you needed a custom build of GWT etc. Considering what you needed to know to get started and how hard that information was to find, it was probably a hundred times harder…
Thanks for your help. I managed to get the client side widgets working in the end, but definitely painful! I think providing some way to just drop a precompiled UI file in would be much more user friendly