Vaadin is an open source framework for building web application user interfaces in Java. It allows building really "rich" application GUI:s with nothing but server-side Java code. No HTML, JavaScript, browser plugins or client-side code is required. For some examples, see
http://demo.vaadin.com/
An Eclipse plugin has been available for a long time, but its feature set and maturity has now reached 1.0. The eclipse plugin includes numerous features
- Building Servlet based apps
- Building Portlets
- Preparing applications for Google App Engine deployment applications
- Building new Vaadin widgets with integrated Google Web Toolkit
- Creating new CSS themes
- Integrated book about Vaadin
- Composing new user interface components with the WYSIWYG UI editor (which is still on experimental "alpha" level)
Read install instructions for the free plugin
here.
