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Come and meet us at JavaOne 2015
Once again Vaadin packs up for the upcoming JavaOne 2015 and heads to San Francisco, US. JavaOne is ‘the event’ for Java enthusiasts, where one can hear the best speakers, get insights into the future of Java, and connect with other members of the Java community. Designer 1.0 and more At the booth ...
Vaadin pre-releases moved to new repository
We are getting closer to releasing our next minor release, 7.6. There has already been 7 alpha pre-releases and we hope to call them betas in the next couple of weeks. We encourage developers to use, or at least try, our pre-releases when working with projects without strict deadlines. This is an ...
Minimized Vaadin servers for IoT solutions
Trimming down the last bytes of deployment artifact size and server startup time has never really been a top priority for business app developers. These measures just need to be within reasonable values, and are seldom essential things in business applications, neither in development or production ...
More about Vaadin Font Icons
Using icons is a quick and effective way to visually represent content on the web. Icons can also aesthetically improve a site’s or application’s visual look and feel. Having all the icons in one font file is a very handy way of working with icons in design applications. Font icons being basically ...
Community Spotlight - September 2015
It’s been awhile since we last wrote about new add-ons in Vaadin Directory. Like we promised last month, this time we will take a look at some of the new add-ons and updates available. As usual, there is more new stuff than makes sense to list here. Thank you everyone for your awesome contributions ...
Vaadin 7.6 preview: Improved communication mechanism
Have you ever seen this nasty warning? If so, Vaadin 7.6 will bring better times for you with its improved communication. It has better fault tolerance, error handling and feedback to the user! Error handling before was very simple The handling of temporary communication problems in Vaadin 7.5 and ...
A day in the life of a Vaadin Expert
We at Vaadin get hundreds of job applications each month, and the most common question of all applicants is, what a “normal day” for a Vaadin Expert looks like. To answer that let’s have a look at one of our Vaadin Experts, Mr. Petri Heinonen. Petri’s story is quite similar to those of others ...
Vaadin Spring 1.0.0 is out!
I’m honoured to announce that the beta period for Vaadin Spring integration library has ended and the first stable release, with version number 1.0.0, is now available. Using Vaadin (and plain Java) alone is not the best way to build large business applications. In any non-trivial application, ...
Host your JavaDoc’s online in GitHub
It’s Thursday evening and you have just finished your new awesome Vaadin Add-on. The very last commit is pushed to github, the .zip is uploaded to the directory, the release notes are updated, you lean back and take a five? Ok, you are great, but wait... Where is your add-on’s javadoc? Of course, ...