Images, Flash, video, audio, and other web content
In the previous section, we saw how to add an icon to a component through a ClassResource instance. A Resource represents web content such as images, flash files, audio files, video, or even an external web page.
Note
Vaadin has two flavors of resources: Generic resources (implement Resource) and connector resources (implement ConnectorResource). A connector resource is specialized in the sense that it will connect to a resource through the Vaadin Servlet while a generic resource will bypass the Servlet.
We can choose from five Resource implementations:
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Fetches a resource from a location specified by URL. The resource is fetched directly by the client. ... |
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