Author: Matti Tahvonen
Community Spotlight: Kimmel Tamás - a CDI expert and Vaadin contributor
The Vaadin community contains a lot of different kind of talent. Some are new to Java, looking for a more productive development platform, some have vast experience from Java and related technologies. Kimmel Tamás is a domain expert in CDI and there is a high chance his code is powering your Vaadin ...
Vaadin Framework 8.4 coming out with a bunch of enhancements and improved JDK 10 support
Update: Vaadin Framework 8.4.0 is now available. Alpha releases of Vaadin 8.4 are already available, and the final is scheduled for the 25th of April. The feature release contains enhancements to Grid, TreeGrid, Binder, converters, DateField, BrowserResizeListener and more. ComboBox has a better ...
Vaadin 10 is now in beta phase, help us to make it stable
Last September we made the first developer preview release of Vaadin 10, and last week we announced a beta version. Vaadin 10 will be one of the most significant renewals to the Vaadin platform. All of the UI components are now built as standard Web Components, which you can use in virtually any ...
Vaadin Framework 8.3 is now stable
It’s my pleasure to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.3.0 is now out and ready for general usage. As discussed in the previous beta blog entry, the most significant enhancements are in the integration libraries to Spring and CDI. Also, many components have received nice improvements. To take ...
Vaadin Framework 8.3 coming up
The first beta release of Vaadin 8.3 is out. As we are now getting into the “release train mode,” this comes quite soon after the recent 8.2 version. Along with all the latest bug fixes, there is also a bunch of nice features that made it to this milestone. Easier styling of certain components: ...
Using default DataSource to simplify the development and deployment of a Java EE application
Most servers these days, even when not applying a microservice architecture, host just one application. And most new applications connect to just a single database. Still a lot of time, both in development and deployment, is often spent configuring how your application connects to your relational ...
The state of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) in the modern web
I have always been a big fan of the SVG format (Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML based standard to represent graphics). I was already building a charting library using SVGs when the only way to display them in a browser was a browser plugin by Adobe. Around seven years ago I also authored an add-on ...
Vaadin 8.2 comes with improvements to Binder, Navigator, Grid, and Tree
Although there is currently a lot of buzz around the upcoming Vaadin 10 and Flow, we continue to work with improvements to the Vaadin 8 series, as well. In fact, specific features are developed or improved in the 8 series and then the changes will later be applied to Vaadin Flow. Also, the ...
More on Java 9 compatibility
As discussed earlier, the core of Vaadin 8 is already compatible with Java 9. The issue burdening developers, however, has been the incompatibility of GWT when compiling a new widgetset, or developing new components. For many Vaadin developers, this has been a showstopper, as setting up a different ...