Vaadin 6.8.5 / 7 Beta 6

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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 ]

· OSGi Export-Package header entries don't have a version number
· Button.setDisableOnClick does not work with Button.setClickShortcut
· PopupView throws an exception if reopened without explicitly letting it close it forst
· Vaadin META-INF/MANIFEST.MF OSGi support lists VAADIN.themes but omits VAADIN.widgetsets.*
· Vaadin 6.8 release notes lack backwards incompatibility section
· "SQLContainer+Table unneccessary recursive ""count"" database queries"
· iOS6 causes random problems by caching Ajax requests
· Browser Back Button does not trigger ValueChangeListener/Blur

Via: Vaadin 6.8.5 / 7 Beta 6