Vaadin 7.1 Beta out now

What a nice way to start a new week. The Vaadin build process was successfully completed on Friday and we have now a new minor (beta) release: Vaadin 7.1 Beta1 is available in Maven Central and on the download page. Those of you who have been following Vaadin development lately already know that ...

Vaadin Directory celebrates 3 years

Three years of Vaadin Directory Vaadin Directory has turned 3 years of age already. The Vaadin Framework itself features a lot of widgets and components, but it cannot have all the features in the world without becoming too big and unusable. The goal of the Vaadin Directory was to “make creation, ...

Vaadin Charts export from browser to SVG and PDF

Blog post by Matti Tahvonen: Like most new chart libraries of our era, Vaadin Charts was born for the web. Behind the scenes, we rely on the industry leading Highcharts JS library, which renders charts in the browser using the standard SVG vector format. Even though SVG had a rocky start, modern ...

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 ...