Today we are introducing Vaadin Enterprise Edition, a dedicated Vaadin product for organizations building and maintaining business-critical Java applications.
Vaadin Enterprise Edition, or Vaadin EE, is the same Vaadin framework you already use, maintained as a separate edition for enterprise use, with the capabilities and assurances organizations need built on top.
It is built for organizations that need Vaadin to fit into enterprise infrastructure, procurement, security and accessibility reviews, restricted networks, modernization programs, and long application lifecycles. It is for the work that starts after someone asks, "Can we run this in production for the next decade?"
Why Vaadin EE Exists
Vaadin has always served more than one kind of user.
An individual developer may care most about productivity, components, and building a web application in Java without assembling a separate frontend stack. Those things matter, and they remain an essential part of Vaadin.
Large organizations have those same needs plus another layer of responsibility. Our largest customers tend to run Vaadin the same way. They run on enterprise application servers like WebSphere Liberty or JBoss EAP. Their security teams need a CVE process they can audit. And many of their applications started long before some of their current developers were hired.
For those teams, Vaadin Free and Pro don't answer every procurement, compliance, and lifecycle question on their own. Vaadin EE does: the same familiar Vaadin, plus the enterprise assurances and long-term support these organizations need, with no framework improvements held back from Free or Pro.
What Vaadin EE Adds
Vaadin EE's additions fall into three areas: where Vaadin runs in your enterprise environment, how teams keep long-lived applications current, and the formal assurances attached to the Enterprise Edition binary.
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Fit Vaadin Into Your Enterprise Environment
Vaadin EE runs where your organization already runs software:- Enterprise application servers. Vaadin EE supports Spring Enterprise, JBoss EAP, WebSphere Liberty, and Payara Enterprise, so Vaadin runs on the infrastructure your organization has already approved and standardized on.
- Vaadin Acceleration Kits. Vaadin EE works with all Vaadin Acceleration Kits, such as the SSO Kit, Observability Kit, and Kubernetes Kit — a consistent way to add single sign-on, production monitoring, and Kubernetes deployment across your applications.
- Restricted and air-gapped environments. Some teams can't pull from the public internet, including those in regulated industries, defense, and high-security operations. Vaadin EE includes an air-gapped version of Vaadin's MCP server so they can use Vaadin's AI-assisted development workflows without weakening the network boundaries they depend on.
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Keep Long-Lived Applications Current
Vaadin EE includes maintained OpenRewrite upgrade recipes that move teams from older Vaadin versions to newer ones with less manual work and more predictable upgrades. That matters most for organizations running many Vaadin applications, or applications expected to live for many years.
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Rely on Formal Assurances
Vaadin EE carries formal assurances that are not available for the regular Vaadin binaries:
- Security review certificate and report
- Accessibility review certificate and report, a standard Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT) covering WCAG 2.1 Level AA, Section 508, and EN 301 549
- ISO certificate for the company maintaining Vaadin
- First-line security fixes
- 15 years of maintenance for every major release
None of this implies regular Vaadin is unsuitable for production. It means Vaadin EE is the edition with the formal documentation and commitments many enterprise organizations require before they standardize on a product.
When You Should Use Vaadin EE
Vaadin EE is built for companies, not individual developers. It fits best in five situations.
Your application's expected lifespan is measured in decades. This is the situation that matters most. Enterprise systems outlive teams, frameworks, and Java versions. The 15-year maintenance window can be what keeps an application running instead of forcing a rewrite. If you're building software that still has to be there in 2040, this is the edition for it.
You want to stay current without a migration project every time. Keeping up with each release normally means reading migration guides and fixing breaking changes by hand. Vaadin EE's maintained OpenRewrite recipes automate the mechanical, repetitive parts of an upgrade, so moving to a newer version becomes something you run rather than a project you schedule.
You run on an enterprise application server. If your production stack is Spring Enterprise, JBoss EAP, WebSphere Liberty, or Payara Enterprise, EE is the edition to run under it. These are the vendor-supported runtimes that pass platform review at large organizations, and EE supports them directly.
You have a security or compliance team in the loop. If procurement asks for ISO certification, a security review report, an Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT) covering WCAG 2.1 Level AA, Section 508, and EN 301 549, or a documented CVE process, those are what EE provides. The first-line security fix process gives your team a predictable response path for vulnerabilities, with notification before public disclosure.
You work in restricted or air-gapped environments. In regulated industries, defense, and high-security operations, outbound internet from build and dev environments often isn't an option. The air-gapped MCP server is part of EE so those teams can use modern Vaadin development workflows without weakening the network boundaries they depend on.
If none of that sounds like you, for example a single developer building a project or a team happy on Spring Boot with the regular Vaadin release cadence, the free Vaadin you've always used is still the right tool. Vaadin EE doesn't replace it. It sits alongside it for the teams that need more.
What's Next
Vaadin Enterprise Edition will be available with the Vaadin 25.2 release on June 24, 2026. You can see its capabilities and assurances at vaadin.com/enterprise.
If you're already a Vaadin customer, your account contact at Vaadin can walk you through moving to EE. If you're new to Vaadin, contact us and we'll help you work out whether it's the right fit.
It's the same framework you trust, with the assurances your company needs behind it.