Added a web.xml and lost vaadin themes

General
1

Hi everyone, I’m new using vaadin. I started an application, got it running and now I am about to extend it and improve it. First thing I needed was to add the app a web.xml and a context.xml files. The problem is that when adding the web.xml I lost the themes. I found this thread, but I don’t use maven: http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/10291 and I don’t know how to get the vaadin themes accesible to my app, or if it’s possible without maven. Here my web.xml :

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app
id="VINIpro" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>VINIPro</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.vaadin.server.VaadinServlet
</servlet-class>

<init-param>
<param-name>UI</param-name>
<param-value>com.vinipro.ViniproUI</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>VINIPro</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>
<param-name>productionMode</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>


</web-app>
2

Is it possible that when switching to web.xml you removed the VaadinServletConfiguration annotations AND the Theme annotation? In that case just add the @Theme annotation back to your UI class.

3

You have productionMode set to true. Did you compile your theme? Vaadin won’t automatically compile SASS to CSS in production mode.

4

Annotations are still there, the header of my UI class:

[code]
@Theme(“vinipro”)

public class ViniproUI extends UI {
public static class Servlet extends VaadinServlet {
}
[/code]I didn’t compile the scss, that’s why I pointed out that I weren’t using Maven, because on the book, it says to include it on your pom.xml etc, etc. Can i do it manually and just add the result to my WEB-INF folder?

5

Yes; the vaadin eclipse plugin can do it for you, and there is a standalone compiler in the vaadin-sass-compiler (or theme-compiler in older versions) JAR file that you can use from the command line. see
https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Creating+a+theme+using+sass