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Some of the initially planned and very important features did not make it to the beta 1. These include:

Server-push
Taglib for easy JSP/JSF integration
WAI-ARIA support
On the fly translation support
Please do accept our apologies for this. We did our best, but ran out of time. We still plan to deliver all of these in a future minor release. To begin with, the preliminary plan for 7.1 is to include server-push, a redesigned table component (yes, finally) as well as support for using many of the Vaadin widgets on the client-side applications.

There are still some really important projects going on in parallel with Vaadin 7.0. These are not ready yet:

Vaadin Eclipse Plug-in with Vaadin 7 support. The work is in progress to integrate Apache Ivy for dependency management.
Marko Grönroos is writing a new edition of the Book of Vaadin that will cover Vaadin 7. It is still far from ready. We will release draft editions later this year, with no timebox for the final edition. It is ready when it is ready. Hopefully before the end of the year.
Sampler and demos are still to be updated. We are working on them and plan to add demo coverage iteratively - starting from Vaadin 7.0 release.

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Maven

The easiest way of getting started would be with Maven. If you prefer command-line, you can create a new project with:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin -DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-application -DarchetypeVersion=7.0.0.beta1 -Dpackaging=war

Then just compile and run with:

mvn package jetty:run

Your application will be running on http://localhost:8080/

Protip: If you won't be using add-ons or writing any client-side code, you can skip fairly slow initial client-side compilation by deleting AppWidgetSet.gwt.xml under src/main/java and removing the widgetset init-param from src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml. Without your custom widgetset, a precompiled default widgetset is used instead.

Eclipse / IntelliJ / Netbeans

At the moment, you should use Maven with the preferred IDE of yours. Early version of the Eclipse plugin can be downloaded from http://vaadin.com/eclipse/experimental, but it still has way too many rough edges.

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Help yourself, test and report back to us. General comments, feedback and rants are welcome on the forums – tell us what you think.

But most importantly, please post bugs reports to dev.vaadin.com.

One more thing. When the Vaadin 7.0.0 will be out? While we did plan that to be on Oct 1, we really do not know the exact release date. We will keep releasing weekly updates to beta until it looks good and polished.

Happy hacking!