Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8

Implementing a CRUD using an editable Grid component

In this section, we'll implement a component containing an editable Grid. The following is a screenshot of the application showing the Grid component in edit mode:

For simplicity, in this example, we'll omit the add and the delete CRUD operations for now. Let's start by creating a class to encapsulate the component as follows:

public class EditableGridCrud extends Composite {    private Grid<User> grid = new Grid<>();    public EditableGridCrud() {        initLayout();        initBehavior();    }    private void initLayout() {        grid.setSizeFull();        VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout(grid);        setCompositionRoot(layout) ...