Author: Matti Tahvonen
Using ContextMenu with Vaadin 7.6
Although Vaadin ContextMenu was published as a separate add-on in Directory, we tend to consider it as a feature of the recent 7.6 release. The latest minor release added essential hooks that make it simple to catch raw “contextmenu” events and build components that take the advantage of them. As ...
Community Spotlight - February 2016
For this month's episode I interviewed an active Vaadin user and add-on author, Jonas Hahn. Jonas Hahn and Vaadin Framework project lead Sami Ekblad in JFokus conference. Where do you work and what is your typical working day like? I am a freelance Java-developer and mostly hired by larger ...
Community Spotlight - January 2016
In the end of last year, our Community Spotlights were quite focused on new add-ons published to Directory. It has been really active on that front lately as well, but this time, let’s concentrate on some of the most interesting articles and examples you have recently created. MVP in Vaadin Spring ...
Community Spotlight - November 2015
It’s been a busy autumn for all of us, but the awesome Vaadin community has found some time to squeeze out quite a lot of cool stuff. Let’s cover some of that. Challenge Many developers have been busy participating in Vaadin Challenge. In this competition, organized together with IBM, you can learn ...
Lots of new Vaadin + Liferay material available
The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications, so for this year’s Liferay Symposium we wanted to publish some fresh learning material - especially for new Vaadin developers. We created a full-stack example portlet, published a couple of smaller tricks for Liferay ...
Vaadin Spring 1.0.0 is out!
I’m honoured to announce that the beta period for Vaadin Spring integration library has ended and the first stable release, with version number 1.0.0, is now available. Using Vaadin (and plain Java) alone is not the best way to build large business applications. In any non-trivial application, ...
Implementing sign-in with Google’s OAuth 2 services
Traditionally all public web apps have had their own authentication mechanisms, typically implemented with application specific username-password pairs. The approach is straightforward to set up for web developers, but also infamously difficult to do right (not at all or too weak hashing of ...
JCache, why and how?
Caching is needed in many different kinds of solutions to optimize the application in various ways. Discover what Jcache is and why you need it. Why, where and how could you use it? Caching libraries in the Java ecosystem is almost as common as mosquitoes in Northern Europe. Ehcache, Hazelcast, ...
Community Spotlight - June 2015
It is time to wrap up some latest community activities. Yet another alternative JVM language supported Kotlin is a programming language developed by JetBrains (the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, TeamCity and lots of other development tools). It is typically compiled to Java bytecode and executed in ...