Does the vaadin netbeans plugin have vaadin designer?

Question

Am currently working on a GUI java project and am using vaadin plugin in netbeans. But I cant seem to find vaadin designer anywhere. I have search on the internet and can't really find anything related. So my problems is, is there a vaadin designer in the netbeans vaadin plugin. If there is, how do I implement it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The Vaadin Designer is exclusively available inside the Vaadin Eclipse Plugin .

There is a working in progress attempt to port the designer on IntelliJ, but it is not yet released as far as I know. Regarding Netbeans support, I think it is possible that will be implemented in the future, but no definitive plans are in place yet.

Answer 2

Later update

Although not Netbeans related, I remembered about someone who created a designer project which may be of some help, so I quickly double-checked the Vaadin add-on collection and noticed it's still being maintained. If it can be of any use to you it's called JaVaDe (Java Vaadin Designer) and it also has a website with some tutorials and instructions.

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Looking at the Netbeans Vaadin plugin page , it seems that it only helps with a few development processes, without providing a GUI designer:

Vaadin Plug-in for NetBeans provides help with developing Vaadin projects:

• Wizards for project generation
• Preferences page for updating Vaadin version, setting widget set compilation parameters and more Vaadin
• Add-on Directory integration and code completion
• Code completion and various Vaadin related templates:
  • Use client package for widget source code
  • Generate client-server state object
  • Generate client-server
  • AccepCriterion DnD class
  • Generate Connector implementation
  • Create GWT module file More information about the plugin in the Wiki

Similar information is available on the Vaadin site

Without the plugin, you can most easily create a Vaadin project as a Maven project using a Vaadin archetype. You can also create a Vaadin project as a regular web application project, but it requires many manual steps to install all the Vaadin libraries, create the UI class, configure the servlet, create theme, and so on.

There's a work in progress for a new NON FREE (as in payed) designer built around the new Vaadin declarative definition concept , which per my knowledge is available for Eclipse already, with the possibility to sign up for an IntelliJ Idea early access preview , but I'm not aware of something similar for Netbeans so far.

PS The old IntelliJ plugin is no longer compatible with the newer versions of Idea, and I'm not sure whether the old Eclipse plugin (which had a decent GUI designer - see screenshot below) is still available and/or maintained. Probably it's been replaced by the new commercial version.

Answer 3

Designer supported in IntelliJ & Eclipse, but not NetBeans

Vaadin Designer requires either IntelliJ or Eclipse . Not supported in NetBeans nor any other IDE .

Per Release Notes as of 2017-03.

Vaadin Designer 2

Designer 2.0.0 is for Vaadin 8.

Requires:

• Eclipse Luna SR2 (4.4.2)+, Java EE edition. Eclipse Neon 4.6 recommended
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 14+ Community/Ultimate

Vaadin Designer 1

Designer 1.2.1 is for Vaadin 7.

Requires:

• Eclipse Luna SR2 (4.4.2)+, Java EE edition
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 14+ Community/Ultimate