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+title: Overview of Vaadin Libraries
+order: 3
+layout: page
+---
+
+[[getting-started.libraries]]
+= Overview of Vaadin Libraries
+
+Vaadin comes as a set of library JARs, of which some are optional or alternative
+ones, depending on whether you are developing server-side or client-side
+applications, whether you use add-on components, or use CSS or Sass themes.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-server-7.x.x.jar#:: The main library for developing server-side Vaadin applications, as described in
+<<dummy/../../../framework/application/application-overview.asciidoc#application.overview,"Writing
+a Server-Side Web Application">>. It requires the [filename]#vaadin-shared# and
+the [filename]#vaadin-themes# libraries. You can use the prebuilt
+[filename]#vaadin-client-compiled# for server-side development, unless you need
+add-on components or custom widgets.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-shared-7.x.x.jar#:: A shared library for server-side and client-side development. It is always
+needed.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-client-7.x.x.jar#:: The client-side Vaadin framework, including the basic GWT API and
+Vaadin-specific widgets and other additions. It is required when using the
+[filename]#vaadin-client-compiler# to compile client-side modules. It is not
+needed if you just use the server-side framework with the precompiled
+Client-Side Engine. You should not deploy it with a web application.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-client-compiler-7.x.x.jar#:: The Vaadin Client Compiler is a Java-to-JavaScript compiler that allows building
+client-side modules, such as the Client-Side Engine (widget set) required for
+server-side applications. The compiler is needed, for example, for compiling
+add-on components to the application widget set, as described in
+<<dummy/../../../framework/addons/addons-overview.asciidoc#addons.overview,"Using
+Vaadin Add-ons">>.
++
+//TODO There's a need for such
+section.
+For detailed information regarding the compiler, see
+<<dummy/../../../framework/clientside/clientside-compiling#clientside.compiling,"Compiling
+a Client-Side Module">>. Note that you should not deploy this library with a web
+application.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-client-compiled-7.x.x.jar#:: A precompiled Vaadin Client-Side Engine (widget set) that includes all the basic
+built-in widgets in Vaadin. This library is not needed if you compile the
+application widget set with the Vaadin Client Compiler.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-themes-7.x.x.jar#:: Vaadin built-in themes both as SCSS source files and precompiled CSS files. The
+library is required both for basic use with CSS themes and for compiling custom
+Sass themes.
+
+[filename]#vaadin-sass-compiler-1.x.x.jar#:: The Vaadin Sass Compiler compiles Sass themes to CSS, as described in
+<<dummy/../../../framework/themes/themes-sass#themes.sass,"Syntactically Awesome
+Stylesheets (Sass)">>. It requires the [filename]#vaadin-themes-7.x.x.jar#
+library, which contains the Sass sources for the built-in themes. The library
+needs to be included in deployment in development mode to allow on-the-fly
+compilation of themes, but it is not needed in production deployment, when the
+themes are compiled before deployment.
+
+
+
+Some of the libraries depend on each other as well as on the dependency
+libraries provided in the [filename]#lib# folder of the installation package,
+especially the [filename]#lib/vaadin-shared-deps.jar#.
+
+The different ways to install the libraries are described in the subsequent
+sections.
+
+Note that the [filename]#vaadin-client-compiler# and [filename]#vaadin-client#
+JARs should not be deployed with the web application by including them in
+[filename]#WEB-INF/lib#. Some other libraries, such as
+[filename]#vaadin-sass-compiler#, are not needed in production deployment.
+
+
+