Alejandro Duarte - Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8

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When introducing Vaadin to a Java developer for the first time, I have often described it as the frontend framework for the backend developer. While this is an oversimplification, most people with little experience on the frontend tend to learn Vaadin quickly and are able to build beautiful web applications with it. I believe this is due to two distinctive properties of Vaadin: one can write the whole web application in server-side Java, and the user interface components look good and feature-rich by default.
If you feel at home writing server-side Java and working with databases, but get frustrated when building the user interface in JavaScript and HTML, this book is for you. Although you need to know the fundamentals of Vaadin, the book starts with the basic concepts and introduces everything you need to become productive at building a data-centric web applications. The approach in the book is practical, showing you by example how to solve the most common challenges and getting you ready for learning more as you go.
Alejandro Duarte would be a great guide for introducing any technology, and we are very fortunate that he joined the Vaadin team after publishing his first book on Vaadin. I hope this book inspires you to build amazing web apps in no time. For questions not discussed in this book, I invite you to join the friendly Vaadin community and share your experiences with other developers who are eager to guide you further.

Joonas Lehtinen

Founder and CEO of Vaadin

Alejandro Duarte is a developer advocate and trainer at Vaadin Ltd. He is also the author of Vaadin 7 UI Design by Example: Beginner's Guide (Packt, 2013). Graduating from the National University of Colombia with a B.S. in computer science, Alejandro learned how to program with the BASIC programming language at age 13 and has worked on many software development projects in startup-like and big companies in several countries. When he isn't coding, he splits his time between his family, his beautiful girlfriend, and his passion for the electric guitar. You can follow him on Twitter at @alejandro_du .

David Hofmann is a self-taught developer who started working right after high school. 14 years down the lane, he can't help but keep enjoying it. Negotiating and management are the new challenges he finds somewhat more complex than coding, yet much more powerful when delivering solutions. Playing guitar as a hobby keeps him calm, and coffee manages to do the opposite.

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Vaadin Framework is an open source Java web framework released under the Apache License. The framework is well documented, includes sophisticated UI components and themes, has been battle-tested in real-life applications, and is supported by a committed company and a vibrant community that contributes to the framework through forum answers and hundreds of add-ons.

Vaadin Framework allows developers to implement web user interfaces using Java code that runs on the server's JVM. The UI is rendered as HTML5 on the browser. The framework provides fully automated communication between the browser and the server through a programming model close to Swing or AWT. This allows developers/programmers bringing the benefits of object-oriented techniques to the presentation layer in web applications.