NetBeans

Working example project, which results from this tutorial, can be downloaded from github.com/vaadin-on-grails/quickstart-app.

You need to install full version of NetBeans (where Groovy is included).

Then you need to install Grails plugin for NetBeans. Search for grails and mark Groovy and Grails plugin as selected.

Click on Install button and finish the instalation which will require restart Netbeans IDE.

Install Grails plugin

Step 1

Open New Project window to create Grails application. Select Grails Application and click on Next.

Install Grails plugin

Step 2

Type name of the project and finish the wizard.

Install Grails plugin

Also configure Grails version that will be used for your project.

Install Grails plugin

Step 3

Open BuildConfig.groovy and add dependency to vaadin plugin compile ":vaadin:7.6.1".

The latest version of the plugin is always available on http://grails.org/plugin/vaadin

Add dependency

Open commands window in Netbeans.

Open commands window

Run grails compile command. It will download Vaadin plugin together with all mandatory dependencies.

Add dependency

Then click on Refresh Commands button and run grails vaadin-quickstart that will generate sample code to easier project configuration.

Add dependency

The command vaadin-quickstart will generate MyUI.groovy and remove URL mapping inside UrlMapping.groovy.

Optional

We want to prevent Grails to take over URL mapping. Open UrlMappings.groovy and make sure the URL mapping is empty.

class UrlMappings {
    static mappings = {
    }
}

Step 5

We are ready to start up the application. Run grails run-app command.

run-app target

Vaadin application running on http://localhost:8080/my-app will become accessible after a while.

Running Vaadin application