Time for action – reading request parameters

Follow these steps and see how easy it is to use request parameters in Vaadin:

  1. Create a new Vaadin project. We are using website2 as project name.
  2. Code your UI class shown as follows:
    public class Website2UI extends UI {

  protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
    final VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout();
    layout.setMargin(true);
    setContent(layout);

    String page = request.getParameter("page");

    if (page == null) {
      layout.addComponent(new Label("Welcome to Simple Web Site"));
      getPage().setTitle("Simple Web Site");

    } else if ("1".equals(page)) {
      layout.addComponent(
          new Label("Oh yeah! You are watching Page 1!"));
      getPage().setTitle("Simple Web Site - Page 1");

    } else if ("2".equals(page)) { layout.addComponent(new ...

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