Vaadin 6.8.4 / 7 Beta 5

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Vaadin's main advantage over other GUI toolkits it's its great element design and graphics.

Besides the framework itself, various add-ons are also available for extending base functionality.

Vaading is actually based on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Here are some key features of "Vaadin":

· Cross-browser tested components
· Compatible with most application servers
· Comes packed with lots of ready-made components
· Secure Web application architecture
· Integrated with many IDEs (Maven, Eclipse, NetBeans)
· Mobile device and touch friendly
· Easy CSS styling
· MVC (model-view-controller) architecture
· Deep-linking support, and many more
· Lazy loading

Requirements:

· Java 5 or higher

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Possibility to fire Button click events on the server-side.
· Possibility to use HTML inside a Button caption.
· Possibility to set "alternative text" (alt attribute) for the Embedded component.
· Possibility to query the browser window width and height on the server-side.
· Keyboard navigation in TabSheet.
· Max/min limits for splitter position in SplitPanel.
· Extended day range in month view to six full weeks in DateField.
· Non-collapsible Table columns.
· Selecting a TabSheet tab by its position or a Tab instance.
· Getting a component by its index or the index of a given component in CssLayout.
· Removing all Validators of a Field at once.
· Debug IDs unique to a window, not the whole application.
· Larger default size for the debug window.
· Compatibility with Google SuperDevMode.

Via: Vaadin 6.8.4 / 7 Beta 5