The most convenient way to work with Vaadin in IDEA is a Maven project. And here is an illustrated manual on how to use IDEA CE for Vaadin application development. Is it possible to develop Vaadin applications using Community Edition, without Ultimate features? Generally, a basic Vaadin 7 application is a Java, but not a JavaScript or HTML, at least until you are going to develop your own components. For more licensing details, please visit the IntelliJ site You can also obtain a free license, if you work for an open-source product, you are a student or a teacher, etc.

Ultimate Edition supports all these features, and it’s much more comfortable for Vaadin-based development and generally well worth the money. Is it possible to use IDEA Community Edition for Vaadin development? Community Edition is free (as well as Vaadin Framework itself) but it lacks some important Enterprise and Web-related features like HTML/Javascript/CSS language support, application servers integration, GWT support etc.

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