Preface

Vaadin is an open source framework to ease development of Java web applications that provides a programming model close to Swing or AWT. Vaadin is licensed under the Apache License, is well documented, comes with out-of-the-box theming facilities, and is supported by a committed company and a vibrant community contributing to the framework through forums and hundreds of add-ons.

Vaadin allows developers to write web applications using only Java. Of course, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are building blocks of web application development, however, by using Vaadin, developers will be maintaining Java code most of the time. The UI layer is implemented using the object-oriented paradigm. This allows developers to bring all the object-oriented knowledge ...

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