Is your Vaadin application becoming sluggish?

(by Matti Tahvonen) Yes, this can happen - it is no secret. This can happen for every application, with every programming language, with every UI library and with all hardware platforms. Make it a web application and it is not even hard. For end users this is not acceptable, especially when ...

Vaadin 6.1 goes to Maven and adds Google App Engine support

Vaadin for Maven Users It is now easy for Maven users to enhance their web projects with Vaadin user interfaces. The latest 6.1 version of the Vaadin Java web library is now available also for Maven users, via the Maven central repository. Here is a small usage sample: mvn archetype:generate ...

Video: Getting started with Vaadin and Eclipse

Thanks to the Vaadin plugin it is extremely easy to start development on Eclipse. After installing Eclipse Java EE and Tomcat 6 (both should be a matter of unzipping) watch this video and you will be on the right track to web applications.

User Notifications with Vaadin

A few years ago there were discussions about modal monologue boxes in applications and how bad they are. Monolog boxes are the similar dialogs JavaScript's window.alert(message) produces; a modal dialog that user has to click on in order to go on with his/her workflow. This is really an inhumane ...

Vaadin JavaOne Success - FAQ at Booth

We are finally back from JavaOne. For Vaadin this was the first place where it was presented to a larger audience. It was a success and triumph of good design. As much as visitors were astonished by the Vaadin web components they were asking us about those cool t-shirts and laptop bags. At our ...

Vaadin 6 Server-Driven RIA Framework Announced - the Next Generation of IT Mill Toolkit

We are pleased to announce the first pre-release of the upcoming Vaadin 6.0 is available. Upcoming Vaadin 6 will include two entirely new tools: an Eclipse plugin and a preview version of a WYSIWYG user interface editor. Take a look at the demos to to see what kind of web applications you can ...