hi,
I am new to Vaadin, sorry if I ask commonly known things.
I am evaluating RIA frameworks for the development of a collaboration tool for developers. I am thinking of using Vaadin or RAP.
One of the things that I would like to know is whether Vaadin supports a google documents type of web app design, i.e. that for each resource (document) an editor opens in a new tab in the browser. The concept of a workbench with views etc… is IMO not very usable in the web, I would prefer a tabbed browsing design.
Related question: is it possible in to open a resource specific editor from a bookmarkeable URL.
Ideal would be cutomizable URL structure (like in Rails) where a content type of html redirects to the vaadin editor for this resource, and other content types ( xml/ json ) point to classic REST service implementation.
Another: does tabbed browsing style impact performance?
many thanks,
Bram