Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – creating a new Vaadin project

Steps to create a new Vaadin project are as follows:

1. Go to File | New Project… and select Project from Archetype under the Maven category. Click on Next.
   
2. Type vaadin in the Search field and select vaadin-archetype-application. Click on Next.
   

   Note

   You can think of Maven archetypes as project wizards maintained online. Maven will take care of all JARs needed.

3. Enter welcome as Project name and click on Finish.

   Note

   You may want to fill in the rest of the fields with your preferred values, but for this first application, ...