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====== Vaadin Coding ======
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for [[:vaadin2009:start|Vaadin Code Camp 2009]]

Generally go to [[http://vaadin.com|vaadin }>]] site, lot of information is there.

====== Coding References and Links ======
  * See IT MILL vaadin pages  http://vaadin.com
    * [[http://vaadin.com/tutorial|Tutorial]]
    * [[http://vaadin.com/book|Book]]
    * [[http://vaadin.com/api/|API]]


====== Short Coding Notes ======
**CTRL+1** (Quick Fix) to give choices to fix code under cursor. Be careful although to select **right** things, like packages, usually **com.vaadin.***.

**CTRL+SPACE** to complete names.

**/?restartApplication** in end of browser URL field to refresh vaadin servlet in tomcat to make changes effective.

**WebContent/WEB-INF/lib** is the place store additional **.jar**:s.

**Keep code formatted and clean** on eclipse file **CTRL-A** and **CTRL-SHIFT-F** to format code automatically.

====== Monday Demo =======
  * {{:vaadin2009:goodnews.zip|GoodNews Sample Code}} and two jar's are neeeded as well to put them into MyProject/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib folder:
    * https://rome.dev.java.net/ **rome-1.0.jar**
    * http://www.jdom.org/dist/binary/ and jdom-1.1.1.zip. Open zip and take **jdom.jar** from jdom/build folder.
    * OR on eclipse
      * Create vaadin project GoodNews
      * File->Import, General->Archive File, select goodnews.zip and finish => GoodNews/GoodNews/ folder is created
      * Move files from GoodNews/GoodNews/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/ to GoodNews/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
      * Move files from GoodNews/GoodNews/src/com/example/goodnews to com.example.goodnews
      * GoodNews/GoodNews can be deleted




======= Data storage =======
  * For simple "key=value" case use [[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html|Java Properties file]] 
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Db4o_%28object_database%29|db4o]] is is also simple solution without annotations
  * If you are targeting Google App Engine use JDO or JPA and  read: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/
  * For Java-based SQL storage [[http://db.apache.org/derby/|Apache Derby]]

====== Contributed components/widgets ======
  * http://dev.vaadin.com/svn/contrib/
  * http://dev.vaadin.com/svn/incubator/

====== Uilder code search ======
  * http://uilder.virtuallypreinstalled.com/search


====== Coding Software ======
Information to set coding tool chain is found from vaadin book section [[http://vaadin.com/book/-/page/getting-started.environment.html|Setting up the Development Environment]].

[[wp>Toolchain]]
  - [[http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp|Java 2 SE 6.0]]
  - [[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/|Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers]]
  - [[http://tomcat.apache.org/|Apache Tomcat 6.0 (Core)]]
  - [[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html?from=getfirefox|Firefox 3.0.7 or newer]]
  - [[http://getfirebug.com/|Firebug 1.3.3 or newer]]
  - [[http://vaadin.com/download/|vaadin]]
  - [[http://vaadin.com/eclipse|vaadin Eclipse plugin]]