Vaadin Certification week coming up in March 2015!

Good news! If you haven’t certified yourself yet, next week, March 23rd-29th 2015, you’ll have the chance of a lifetime! For the entire week the Vaadin Certification exam can be taken for free (normally $130.) As a certified developer, you can showcase your know-how in your CV, on vaadin.com in ...

Spring news: Beta is in the air

The Vaadin Spring and Vaadin Spring Boot add-ons have now entered the beta phase. There have been lots of questions about the best way of using Spring and Vaadin together. You in the community have made a couple of really nice integrations, but there haven't been any officially supported ways of ...

Vaadin Newsletter - a snapshot of Vaadin

Vaadin Newsletter is our monthly status update of what is going on around Vaadin - every month we tell about the latest releases and upcoming events. In the newsletter we discuss how people are using Vaadin and reveal where we are heading. Over 60 000 subscribers To this date, we have published 38 ...

Creating Vaadin Components with TypeScript

With the introduction of Vaadin 7 it became possible to write components using plain JavaScript. Doing so has the benefit of not having to compile the widgetset, and being able to use the browser development tools without devmode. One of the downsides of using JavaScript is the lack of static ...

Using JAX-RS 2 Client API in Liberty and Bluemix

I’m a big fan of JAX-RS 2.0 Client API, a part of Java EE 7 specification. They make writing stuff that depends on external REST services really easy on JVM. If you don’t know about the client API, you should definitely check out my recent tutorial for JAX-RS Client APIs. I just started a project ...

Browsersync and JRebel for keeping you in flow

Browsersync is a helpful utility for automatically reloading browser windows when making modifications to your application and also reflecting browser events between multiple browsers. This can be really helpful when testing your application in multiple browsers while developing. To get Browsersync ...

Using Vaadin Grid

Last week we released one of the most important components in the 7.4 version of the framework - the Grid. If you haven’t taken a look at it yet, I can tell you that there are quite a few features that you can use to present and tune to get your data on the screen. Like you know, Grid is now a part ...

Community Spotlight - February 2015

Directory renewal is getting closer. In last month’s episode, we didn’t discuss about the Directory or traditional Vaadin add-ons at all. So lets start with some news about the upcoming Directory renewal. We have just deployed a new version of the preview, now with a fully featured administration ...

Vaadin 7.4 released

Welcome to the next 7-series release. Even though this is called a "minor release", Vaadin 7.4 includes some enhancements which are actually making it a huge step forward. The Grid - for all your data First things first. The Table component has been one of the most prominent components in Vaadin ...