Vaadin Charts 2.1 Released!

We are proud to announce a new final release: Vaadin Charts 2.1. We added new chart types, series types and features for you to enjoy. A new chart type: Tree Maps. Check out a live sample. A new series type: Polygon Series for drawing custom areas to your charts. Check out a live sample. A new ...

Community Spotlight - June 2015

It is time to wrap up some latest community activities. Yet another alternative JVM language supported Kotlin is a programming language developed by JetBrains (the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, TeamCity and lots of other development tools). It is typically compiled to Java bytecode and executed in ...

Vaadin Font Icons

If you love font icons then I have good news for you. I have been working hard to finish our own Vaadin Font Icon collection. Vaadin Font Icons are completely free and the collection includes 530 unique icons. Check out for more information on the Icons from Vaadin Font Icons site. Fonts icons are ...

Vaadin 7.5 released

Hello everyone! We’re happy to announce that we got a new release out. This one is called Vaadin 7.5. This is a good moment to have a look at what was just released. Declarative support for Vaadin Designer First of all, have you met Vaadin Designer? It is one of the most exciting tools we have ...

Is MVP a Best Practice?

When I first learned about the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern, I was excited. I thought this was The Pattern to use for Vaadin user interfaces and that it would make everybody’s life a lot easier. Now, when I am older and maybe a bit wiser, I am not so sure anymore. As an architect, it is easy ...

Success story: Migrating a financial app from a swing applet to the web

A couple of months ago, we released a tutorial on how to migrate from Swing to web applications with Vaadin. If you haven’t seen it yet and you’re considering moving your Swing, AWT, SWT or any desktop based app to the web – check it out. DemandWorks in the US and now Procountor from Finland are ...

Vaadin Designer Beta is out!

Right now, right here, just for you, we have launched the most interesting Beta release of the whole year: we are proud to announce the Beta release of Vaadin Designer! Have you ever pondered how your layouts actually look while writing plain Java? Have you ever suffered from not having real-time ...

SAP HANA Cloud Platform + Vaadin - a combo for productive web app development

SAP HANA is a rather interesting, efficient in-memory database. It can be purchased as a "black box" server (rented hardware, with pre-installed software) that you place to your server room or simply use as a cloud service. Together with the actual RDBMS, you can use SAP HANA Cloud Platform (SAP ...

New Training course – Vaadin Framework & Java EE

I’m excited to announce that a new course has been added to our training offerings. Vaadin Framework & Java EE is the fourth course available, along with Vaadin Fundamentals, Advanced Vaadin and Extending Vaadin. The course has a two day program and is directed towards those who know the basics ...