What this book covers

Chapter 1, Creating New Vaadin Projects, demonstrates how to create a new Vaadin Maven project from scratch and explains the main architecture and parts of a Vaadin application.

Chapter 2, Modularization and Main Screens, explains how to design an API for implementing main screens and shows how to create functional application modules that are registered at runtime.

Chapter 3, Implementing Server-Side Components with Internationalization, discusses implementation strategies for implementing custom UI components with internationalization support.

Chapter 4, Implementing Authentication and Authorization, explores different approaches for implementing secure authentication and authorization mechanisms in Vaadin applications.

Chapter 5, Connecting to SQL Databases Using JDBC, focuses on JDBC, connection pools, and repository classes in order to connect to SQL databases.

Chapter 6, Connecting to SQL Databases Using ORM Frameworks, outlines how to use JPA, MyBatis, and jOOQ to connect to SQL databases from Vaadin applications.

Chapter 7, Implementing CRUD User Interfaces, takes you through user interface design and the implementation of CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) views.

Chapter 8, Adding Reporting Capabilities, shows how to generate and visualize print-preview reports using JasperReports.

Chapter 9, Lazy Loading, looks at how to implement lazy loading to make your applications consume fewer resources when dealing with large datasets.