Krail (previously known as V7) provides a framework for rapid Java web development by combining Vaadin, Guice, Apache Shiro, Apache Commons Configuration and others.

This core library provides:

• Site navigation, using a sitemap configured by annotation, Guice or file (or any combination thereof)
• Authentication / Authorisation framework, including page access control
• Vaadin Server Push (with option to disable it)
• Extensive I18N support
• User options
• Application configuration through ini files etc

Additional libraries, integrated and configured through Guice, provide:

• JPA persistence - krail-jpa, using Apache Onami persist and EclipseLink
• Quartz scheduler - krail-quartz, using, of course, Quartz Scheduler

The issues tracker, blog and documentation provide more information.

Not available in Maven Central, only JCenter

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

'uk.q3c.krail:krail:0.7.7'

<repository>
  <id>jcenter</id>
  <url>https://jcenter.bintray.com</url>
</repository>


<dependency>
   <groupId>uk.q3c.krail</groupId>
   <artifactId>krail</artifactId>
   <version>0.7.7</version>
</dependency>

##Limitations

Fails on Tomcat 8

3rd January 2015:

• Vaadin 7.3.7 is integrated with:
• Guice 3.0,
• Shiro 1.2.1,
• Apache Commons Configuration

Krail is usable, though there are still some bugs and further developments needed. Vaadin push is now supported.

There is a simple demo project

There is a functional test application which can also be used to explore functionality

##Project Build

Gradle is used (made a lot easier thanks to the Gradle Vaadin plugin. If you are an Eclipse user, and want to build from the source, you will need to run 'gradle eclipse' to generate .classpath and other Eclipse specific files.