Try out HTML5 drag-n-drop, components in Grid and TreeGrid today

Vaadin Framework 8.0 came out just a bit more than a month ago, but we are already pretty far with the next major feature enhancements. The top three new features in Vaadin 8.1 include (click links to see examples in Sampler): Component support in Grid. In 8.1 it is no more required to use custom ...

Vaadin Framework 8 is out!

The long wait is over and I’m privileged to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.0.0 is released today! Version 7 was released over four years ago. Even though there have been 7 minor releases since the initial release, that have added countless of new major features, major releases are always more ...

Vaadin Framework 6 is becoming end-of-life, now what?

Vaadin Framework 7 was released in 2013, but there are still a whole lot of Vaadin 6 applications, doing their job, each and every day. When Vaadin 8 comes out as a stable release, which is hopefully pretty soon, Vaadin 6 series won’t anymore be covered by our free support, 8 years after its ...

Vaadin 8 beta is out - we need your help!

Update: We are now in RC state, help us to iron out the last bugs before first stable release! I’m happy to announce that the first beta version of the next major Vaadin Framework release is out. As discussed earlier, version 8 is a huge step forward taking advantage of the greatest and latest Java ...

GitHub transition: completed

Like the most active of you have already noticed, Vaadin has been moving its open source functions to GitHub. Today, we can finally say we are there. Vaadin Framework is the biggest and the most important project to adapt a fully GitHub based workflow. What does this mean to you? In short: forget ...

Take a REST by integrating Salesforce into Vaadin

Consuming RESTful web services is quite a common topic currently. Many of the trendy microservices just provide a RESTful API which must then be consumed from the UI layer. Salesforce provides a rather complete UI for their services, but they also provide excellent hooks for developers to build ...

Vaadin Spring 1.1 is out

I’m pleased to announce that a new version of Vaadin Spring is released! The version 1.1 brings a major enhancement for Navigator and View handling, which shaves away a lot of boilerplate code from non-trivial applications that have multiple views. Spring powered Navigator The big new feature in ...

Spring Boot - a perfect platform for a Vaadin UI

Vaadin Framework is a web app UI framework that requires just a Java virtual machine and a servlet container. In theory that is all you need to build your application, but for most real business apps, you are much better off when you base your app on some application framework. Spring Framework and ...

Dependency Injection, black magic or a must have tool for a modern Java application?

If you have passed your courses about object oriented programming, you know that loose coupling is something you should always strive for. There are many ways to achieve loose coupling. Inversion of control (IoC) using dependency injection (DI) is one way to improve the quality of your code. When a ...