Author: Matti Tahvonen
Vaadin Eclipse plugin 3.0 - now with first class Maven support
A couple of years ago, along with the release of Vaadin 7, we chose our Eclipse plugin to be based on a dependency management tool called IVY. Still most of us, even most of the Eclipse users, are not using IVY. This has naturally made the plugin irrelevant for most Vaadin Eclipse users, but today, ...
What’s up in Vaadin R&D?
The core framework team, whose responsibility it is to develop Vaadin Framework, has been busy during the winter building a major update to the Vaadin Eclipse Plugin. But we have built many other new features during 2016 as well - most of them available for you to try today. We have also decided ...
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 ...
Vaadin Framework tutorial renewed
Publishing a new version of a tutorial is not necessarily the most interesting thing for existing Vaadin developers, but we believe this will help many new developers to become addicted to the simplicity of Vaadin development. In case you have friends, who you think should have Vaadin in their ...
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 ...
Vaadin 7.6 is out
On behalf of the Vaadin team, I am pleased to announce a new minor release, Vaadin 7.6. The release contains a set of new features and hooks for new extensions, essential improvements for communication stability and a bunch of bug fixes. As discussed earlier, the refactored communication layer is ...
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 ...