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- title: Vaadin Installation Package
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- [[getting-started.package]]
- = Vaadin Installation Package
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- While the recommended way to create a Vaadin project and install the libraries is to use an IDE plugin or a dependency management system, such as Maven, Vaadin is also available as a ZIP distribution package.
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- You can download the newest Vaadin installation package from the download page
- at http://vaadin.com/download/. Please use a ZIP decompression utility available
- in your operating system to extract the files from the ZIP package.
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- [[getting-started.package.contents]]
- == Package Contents
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- [filename]#README.TXT#:: This README file gives simple instructions for installing Vaadin in your project.
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- [filename]#release-notes.html#:: The Release Notes contain information about the new features in the particular release, give upgrade instructions, describe compatibility, etc.
- Please open the HTML file with a web browser.
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- [filename]#license.html#:: Apache License version 2.0.
- Please open the HTML file with a web browser.
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- [filename]#lib# folder:: All dependency libraries required by Vaadin are contained within the [filename]#lib# folder.
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- [filename]#*.jar#:: Vaadin libraries, as described in <<getting-started-libraries#getting-started.libraries,"Overview of Vaadin Libraries">>.
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- [[getting-started.package.install]]
- == Installing the Libraries
-
- You can install the Vaadin ZIP package in a few simple steps:
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- . Copy the JAR files at the package root folder to the [filename]#WEB-APP/lib# web
- library folder in the project. Some of the libraries are optional, as explained
- in
- <<dummy/../../../framework/getting-started/getting-started-libraries#getting-started.libraries,"Overview
- of Vaadin Libraries">>.
-
- . Also copy the dependency JAR files at the [filename]#lib# folder to the
- [filename]#WEB-APP/lib# web library folder in the project.
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- The location of the [filename]#WEB-APP/lib# folder depends on the project
- organization, which depends on the development environment.
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- * In Eclipse Dynamic Web Application projects: [filename]#WebContent/WEB-INF/lib#.
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- * In Maven projects: [filename]#src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib#.
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