Chapter 6. Adding More Components

Now that you have a strong knowledge base about Vaadin, you are able to use any component that fits your needs. This chapter will introduce you to several UI components that would be worthwhile to bear in mind when developing Vaadin applications with great user experience.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Trees
  • Tree tables
  • Progress indicators
  • Icons
  • Images, Flash, video, audio, and other web content
  • Sliders
  • Color picker
  • File download
  • Context menus
  • Drag-and-drop

Are you ready to take a fast trip through rich components? Hope you are. This chapter will complete the full view of out-of-the-box Vaadin UI components.

Trees

Trees are used to display hierarchical data in a very easy to understand fashion.

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