Hi,
I was very excited, when I first saw the demo apps on the homepage and I am thinking about switching (from GWT) to Vaadin for a long time.
During the last two days I gave it a try, but nearly nothing is working. It’s frustrating…
- The “New Project Wizard” in eclipse kept hanging forever so that I hat to kill eclipse again and again. After doing research all day long I finally found a statement that this is a bug which happens with Tomcat 7, but not with Tomcat 6. So I tried using Tomcat 6 and the New Project Wizard finished successfully.
- Then, when trying the Designer with a new “Vaadin Composite”, the designer tab did not appear. There is just a “Source” tab, and the name of the tab (nearby the “X”) is empty. I also did some research on this, and I also found a lot of web pages dealing with it, but no solution.
For now, I am somewhat disappointed. At the first sight, Vaadin seems to be a powerful and mature framework. But I didn’t get started yet.
The today’s experiences were made in the following environment:
- Windows 7
- Eclipse Kepler, JEE
- Vaadin (6 and 7)
I could also give it a try on my debian box. But can you really recommend me to do that?
My first impression was very disappointing.
Thanks
Magnus