Using Vaadin on NetBeans WITHOUT Maven

Question

I\'m starting with Vaadin and I\'d like to know if it\'s possible work with this framework in NetBeans without using maven. The reason is the project using maven takes ages down

Answer 1

If it's a dependency issue, you can use Maven to download all jars to a directory and then add the jars to a netbeans project. e.g. Using Maven to download dependencies to a directory on the command line

Answer 2

We initially also wished to do netbeans development with vaadin 7, without having to use the maven stuff.

In Vaadin6 this was simple, it worked fine. But for Vaadin 7 we have not been able to do it in a reasonable way. So we finally switched to maven for the Vaadin7 projects.

You can install a nexus repository which caches the maven downloads, so it can prevent the timeout problems.

Not sure what the Vaadin Plugin actually allows you to do, but perhaps this one also works without maven?