RAD with Vaadin7 and Embedded-Glassfish v4

ClassloaderFixVaadinServlet.java

package com.dominikdorn.vaadin7ee.demo.example_one;

import com.vaadin.server.VaadinServlet;

/**
 * Subclass of the VaadinServlet to fix issues with the Classloader 
 * not finding our UIs and Themes.
 * 
 * @author Dominik Dorn <dominik -at- dominikdorn -dot- com>
 *         http://dominikdorn.com/
 */
public class ClassloaderFixVaadinServlet extends VaadinServlet {
}

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <parent>
        <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
        <groupId>com.dominikdorn.vaadin7ee</groupId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <artifactId>javaee7demo</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <name>javaee7demo</name>

    <properties>
        <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <!-- don't use version 4.0 of the plugin, its broken -->
        <embedded-glassfish.version>3.1.2.2</embedded-glassfish.version>
        <glassfish.version>4.0</glassfish.version>
        <vaadin.version>7.1.3</vaadin.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
            <version>7.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
            <artifactId>vaadin-server</artifactId>
            <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
            <!-- add the vaadin dependencies to the glassfish embedded plugin deps to keep war size small -->
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
            <artifactId>vaadin-client</artifactId>
            <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
            <artifactId>vaadin-client-compiled</artifactId>
            <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
            <artifactId>vaadin-themes</artifactId>
            <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.7</source>
                    <target>1.7</target>
                    <compilerArguments>
                        <endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
                    </compilerArguments>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>validate</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
                            <silent>true</silent>
                            <artifactItems>
                                <artifactItem>
                                    <groupId>javax</groupId>
                                    <artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
                                    <version>7.0</version>
                                    <type>jar</type>
                                </artifactItem>
                            </artifactItems>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.glassfish.embedded</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${embedded-glassfish.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <app>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/</app>
                    <ports>
                        <http-listener>8282</http-listener>
                        <https-listener>8383</https-listener>
                    </ports>
                    <contextRoot>${project.artifactId}</contextRoot>
                </configuration>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.glassfish.main.common</groupId>
                        <artifactId>simple-glassfish-api</artifactId>
                        <version>${glassfish.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.glassfish.main.extras</groupId>
                        <artifactId>glassfish-embedded-all</artifactId>
                        <version>${glassfish.version}</version>
                    </dependency>


                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-client-compiled</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-client</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-themes</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-client-compiler</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>

                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-server</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>vaadin-client</artifactId>
                    <version>${vaadin.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app
        version="3.0"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">

    
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Vaadin7Example1Servlet</servlet-name>
        <!-- we're using our own servlet to fix classloading issues -->
        <!--<servlet-class>com.vaadin.server.VaadinServlet</servlet-class>-->
        <servlet-class>com.dominikdorn.vaadin7ee.demo.example_one.ClassloaderFixVaadinServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>UI</param-name>
            <param-value>com.dominikdorn.vaadin7ee.demo.example_one.ExampleOneUI</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <async-supported>true</async-supported>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Vaadin7Example1Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/example1/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Vaadin7Example1Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/VAADIN/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    
</web-app>