Dr. Joonas LehtinenVaadin - CEO

Vaadin 7what next?

@joonaslehtinen

Nov 14. 2012

Vaadin Framework7

Beta8

Ready when it is ready[we slipped out of the time-box to deliver quality]

RCETA early Dec

Rebuilt from the core 7Text

Empower Developers

Embrace Extendability

Clean Up

Whatnext?7

DisclaimerRoadmap after 7 is not decided yet... all of the following is just thoughts on what would be the best way of setting the roadmap after 7 if we would be writing it in stone today... But of course there might be quite a few things that could and will change along the road.. And here starts the real diclaimer. If you see this, you are too close to screen, ipsum dolor sit amet,

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major 6

minor 8

maintenance 5

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Maintenance version

Once a month for latest major, when needed for older majors

Released for all supported major versions

Only bugfixes allowed

Minor version

Released for the latest major 2-4 times per year

Try hard not to break backwards compatibility

New features

Major version

5 major versions released in the past 11 years. Each one supported for 5 years.

Can break backwards compatibility when really needed

New features

8No plans to start development in 2013

71First things first.

Add what is missing from 7

Start adding client-side APIs to some (few)Vaadin widgets

New theme that puts SASS to full use

Built-in push channel

ETA February 2013

72Widgets.

Widgets with server and client API

Most widgets to have client-side APIs

Redesigned combobox

Redesigned Table

ETA June 2013

7x.Other things

Declarative UIs

Embed Vaadin JSPs with a taglib, embed JSPs in UIs and mix declarative UI with JSPs

Mix HTML in UI declarations

Built in, optional XML-based UI declaration for defining UIs

http://vaadin.com/addon/clara

Better IDE Tooling

Declarative UI editing mode for visual editor

Full theme support: See application specific theme in Visual editor

Add-on support: see add-on widgets in visual editor, browse directory in IDE, ...

Book of Vaadin

Final version of the book covering Vaadin 7 expected in January

Preview edition available today - both from vaadin.com/book

Missing from 7, but target not set

On the fly translations for UI

WAI-ARIA

VaadinCharts

Comprehensive charting library

Included in Vaadin Pro Account

Vaadin Timeline is included

Based on #1 charts library: Highcharts(no separate Hightcharts license required)

http://localhost:48080/charts-demo

ETA December 2012

JEEVaadinCDI

Java EE 6 CDI with Vaadin

Roadmap and license undecided

Helpers for using JAAS security

Support for injecting UIs, Views, ...

https://github.com/vaadin/vaadin-cdi-integration

demoAdd-on samples

?What would youlike to have in the

upcoming roadmap?

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Vaadin: A Familiar Way to Build Web Apps with Java

DZone, Inc. | www.dzone.comFigure 4: The Class Diagram presents all user interface component classes and the most important interfaces, relationships, and methods.

Questions?Comments?

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