Developing a collaborative game experience with Pascal Schwabe

In January 2023, we hosted a Collaboration Kit challenge for the Vaadin community. The goal was to use the Collaboration Kit to design or build a web application with real-time user collaboration. In this blog post series, we take a closer look at the winning applications! Meet Pascal Schwabe! ...
Vaadin Collaboration Kit challenge winner Roman Kovarík

Building a real-time collaborative page editor with Vaadin

In January 2023, we hosted a Collaboration Kit challenge for the Vaadin community. The goal was to use the Collaboration Kit to design or build a web application with real-time user collaboration. In this blog post series, we take a closer look at the winning applications! Meet Roman Kovarík! He is ...
Reach your development goals faster with a Vaadin Technical Success Manager

Reach your development goals faster with a Vaadin Technical Success Manager

A smooth application development process is essential for delivering a high-quality product that meets the needs and expectations of its users. Whether you are developing, modernizing, or operating applications, a Vaadin Technical Success Manager is your expert guide to the efficient use of Vaadin ...
2023 State of Java in the Enterprise report

2023 Trends for Java in the Enterprise

According to developer surveys, Java is one of the top three programming languages, and its use continues to grow. While Java has long been the workhorse language for business applications, there has been little data available about how enterprises are really using Java. This first-ever State of ...

Vaadin’s 2022 highlights and plans for the new year

As 2022 is winding down, let’s take a look back at some of the Vaadin highlights for the year, along with a quick sneak peek into our plans for 2023. Product news Vaadin 23 and a new release model In March, we released Vaadin 23 which also paved the way for our new, simplified release model where ...
Get your own Vaadin Custom Build

Introducing Custom Builds

There are several situations where organizations may choose to stay on an older version of Vaadin Flow. In some cases, you may not have the resources to allocate to the upgrade, especially if your team has to go through a heavy internal verification process. Or, alternatively, you may prefer to ...
2022 VCA winner Simon Martinelli

Simon Martinelli on his experience with the Hilla framework

Simon Martinelli, the owner of 72Services, is a familiar name in our community and it's an honor to nominate him as a Vaadin Community Award winner for the second year running. Simon started his software development career 27 years ago as a Cobol developer on an IBM mainframe before switching to ...
2022 VCA winner Knoobie

The future of the Java ecosystem with Christian Knoop

Christian Knoop is one of the winners of the 2022 Vaadin Community Award. You might recognize him by his nickname "Knoobie" on our Discord channel. Knoobie is a Software Engineer from Germany working at DVZ M-V GmbH — the IT service provider for the state administration of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ...
2022 VCA winner Josiah Haswell

Josiah Haswell on building Aire UX - an open source components and utilities library for Vaadin

Meet Josiah Haswell! He is one of the 2022 winners of the Vaadin Community Award. With a background in compilers and distributed systems, Josiah is currently the CTO of Sunshower.io – a (now mostly open-source) low-code deployment and infrastructure cost and configuration optimization product. In ...