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Vaadin Readme
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How to Start?
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Just double-click start.bat icon. It will start a web application at port 8888 on the
local host and opens a web browser window to display the start page of Vaadin Content
Browser.
The installation directory is a web application as itself and is directly importable to
Eclipse IDE by selecting "File / Import / Existing Projects into Workspace" from Eclipse
main menu. See the manual for detailed instructions.
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What's Inside the Vaadin Package?
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You should start exploring Vaadin through the provided Content Browser web
application within this package; see 'How to Start?' above.
The WebContent directory contains the content available through the Content Browser: the
Vaadin Library, demos, documentation, and other useful information to get started
with Vaadin.
Below is a list of most important locations and files:
Start Vaadin
- start exploring Vaadin by double-clicking this icon
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- license file
WebContent/vaadin-.jar
- Vaadin Library containing Java source and compiled files
WebContent/doc/manual.pdf
- Vaadin Reference Manual in PDF format
WebContent/doc/manual/index.html
- Vaadin Reference Manual in HTML format
WebContent/doc/api/index.html
- Vaadin API Documentation as JavaDoc reference
WebContent/WEB-INF/src
- Content Browser source code, compiled into WebContent/WEB-INF/classes
WebContent/doc/example-source
- example source code in HTML format
WebContent/demo
- files required by the demos
Vaadin Hosted Mode Browser.launch
Vaadin Development Server.launch
- launch configurations for Eclipse workspace
WebContent/doc/example-source/build-widgetset.xml
- example on how to build GWT widget sets for Vaadin application
WebContent/VAADIN
- widget sets and themes
gwt
- Google Web Toolkit is required for building new widget sets