My (highly speculative) Vaadin & GWT meetup presentation on what is happening after Vaadin 7.0.

1. Vaadin 7
what next?
Dr. Joonas Lehtinen
Vaadin - CEO
@joonaslehtinen
Nov 14. 2012

2. Vaadin
7
Framework

3. Beta8

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

5. RC
ETA early Dec

6. the core
7
Rebuilt from
Text

7. Empower Developers
Embrace Extendability
Clean Up

8. 7 What
next?

9. Disclaimer
Roadmap 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
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10. major 6
.
minor 8
.
maintenance 5

11. Maintenance version
Only bugfixes allowed
Released for all supported major
versions
Once a month for latest major,
when needed for older majors

12. Minor version
New features
Try hard not to break backwards
compatibility
Released for the latest major 2-4
times per year

13. Major version
New features
Can break backwards
compatibility when really needed
5 major versions released in the past 11 years.
Each one supported for 5 years.

14. 8
No plans to start
development in 2013

15. .
71
First things first

16. Add what is missing from 7
Built-in push channel
New theme that puts SASS to full use
Start adding client-side APIs to some (few)
Vaadin widgets

17. ETA February 2013

18. .
72
Widgets

20. Widgets with server and client API
Redesigned Table
Redesigned combobox
Most widgets to have client-side APIs

21. ETA June 2013

22. .
7x
Other things

23. Declarative UIs
Built in, optional XML-based UI declaration for
defining UIs
Mix HTML in UI declarations
Embed Vaadin JSPs with a taglib, embed
JSPs in UIs and mix declarative UI with JSPs

24. http://vaadin.com/addon/clara

25. Better IDE Tooling
Add-on support: see add-on widgets in
visual editor, browse directory in IDE, ...
Full theme support: See application
specific theme in Visual editor
Declarative UI editing mode for visual editor

26. Book of Vaadin
Preview edition available today - both from
vaadin.com/book
Final version of the book covering Vaadin 7
expected in January

27. Missing from 7, but target not set
WAI-ARIA
On the fly translations for UI

28. Vaadin
Charts

29. Comprehensive charting library
Based on #1 charts library: Highcharts
(no separate Hightcharts license required)
Vaadin Timeline is included
Included in Vaadin Pro Account

30. http://localhost:48080/charts-demo

31. ETA December 2012

32. JEE
Vaadin
CDI

33. Java EE 6 CDI with Vaadin
Support for injecting UIs, Views, ...
Helpers for using JAAS security
Roadmap and license undecided

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

35. demo
Add-on samples

38. ?
What would you
like to have in the
upcoming roadmap?

39. Questions?
Comments?
joonas@vaadin.com
vaadin.com/joonas
@joonaslehtinen
#vaadin