Automated Vaadin Download

For tools, especially IDE plugins, it can be useful to be able to automatically find out what Vaadin versions are available and automatically download the Vaadin JAR with a given version. A few helper files exist to make this easier:

Finding out the latest available release version

•  http://vaadin.com/download/LATEST
  • Contains information on the latest release version of Vaadin
  • First row: version number of latest stable release
  • Second row: location relative to  http://vaadin.com/download where the Jar of the latest version can be found
    • Jar location:  http://vaadin.com/download/<second row>/vaadin-<first-row>.jar

Listing available versions

•  http://vaadin.com/download/VERSIONS_ALL
  • Comma separated file with the following fields:
    • release type: nightly/prerelease/release
    • version number
    • URL to the Vaadin Jar

GWT version

Each Vaadin version depends on a specific GWT version. The required GWT version can be found out from the META-INF/GWT-VERSION (for older than 6.5.0) or META-INF/MANIFEST.MF row "GWT-Version" (6.5.0 and newer). The required Jar files gwt-user.jar and gwt-dev.jar are also available for download at vaadin.com:

•  http://vaadin.com/download/external/gwt/<version>/
  • gwt-user.jar
  • gwt-dev.jar for 2.0.0 and newer
  • gwt-dev-<platform>.jar for older than 2.0.0
    • platform is windows/mac/linux