Help With Framework Choices

[Petri (Petri Hakala)]

@Eric T Shipek

3. I’m newbie on this, but I noticed that the target/tomcat/webapp directory had nothing in it. I was curious about this. I would have guessed that when deploying to tomcat that stuff would have been dumped into the webapp directory for tomcat but I’m sure I’m missing something.

Tomcat is running in embedded mode when using tomcat:run command. More info
here
. Maybe tomcat:run-war does what you expect.

@Eric T Shipek

1. My next goal is to analyze, file by file, the differences between the apps I’m making with Roo and the SpringApplication example so I can easily create new models and controllers and then plug in Vaadin into them. Am I on the right track? I don’t want to just copy the SpringApplication and modify it because I want to build projects with Roo. Let me know if I’m missing something.

Unfortunately Vaadin does not have Spring Roo add-on but just copy SpringApplicationServlet, BaseApplication, ApplicationHelper and VaadinApplicationObjectSupport classes to your project. Then add servlet to web.xml. Finally make application class that extends BaseApplication and add Vaadin dependency to your project pom.xml. Spring controllers can’t handle Vaadin requests. Instead all requests are handled by servlet. Although you can mix these technologies so you can create some parts of your application with Spring MVC and others with Vaadin.