Vaadin Blog
Monitoring your Vaadin apps with stagemonitor
Sooner or later, every software project has to consider performance to meet the customer’s expectations and to stay marketable. Therefore, a good monitoring tool is inevitable. Commercial solutions are expensive and existing open source projects are often not well suited for web applications or ...
Community Spotlight - April 2015
I just love it when smart people without previous experience learn to use Vaadin and write a blog entry about their experiences. Typically “externals” with a fresh honest mind can summarize the good parts of various tools better than those who stare at the details from a close distance. Just ...
Maven essentials for the impatient developer
We just recently published a new Maven page at vaadin.com/maven. It contains Maven “coordinates” for Vaadin projects and a super handy generic Maven repository search. But does it help you if you haven’t used Maven before? No. Are our most interesting Java examples built with Maven these days? Yes. ...
Don't marginalize your UX
I have seen hundreds of projects fail. But also much more projects succeed in the past 6 years I have worked at Vaadin. It doesn't really matter if it's a 10 person team in Texas or a 1 person project in Laos, they are all basically the same and succeed or fail for the same reason. Any library you ...
State of the Vaadin Framework
Greetings from the Vaadin Framework team. While there hasn’t been too many updates aside from release announcements, I think every now and then it is good to let everyone know where we are and what we are doing. In Vaadin 7.4 we introduced the declarative format and released one of the most ...
Vaadin available at start.spring.io
Spring Initializr is a project configurator that you can use to kickstart your application project. You can use it directly from the web page, but there are also IDE integrations, Spring Boot CLI or simply command line curl to get started. You can just check the libraries and e.g. DB that you are ...
The Future of Directory is here
Did you notice that Vaadin Directory just got a huge facelift? The preview version has been available for a while, but earlier this week we unveiled the Directory 2.0 to everybody. What’s new? Most notably the whole user interface has been redesigned. Along with a modern and responsive look, we ...
Community Spotlight - March 2015
The Spring of Grid The late winter and early spring has definitely been spiced by the Grid. It has been a huge project in Vaadin, multiple times larger than we initially expected years ago, when it was only a sketch on our chalk boards. In fact, you shouldn't think of the first release just as a ...
A new Vaadin tutorial for developers with Swing experience
If you as a Vaadin developer have some background in desktop application development, you are probably well aware of the similarities that Vaadin and desktop GUI libraries like Swing have. The development model is so similar that Swing developers typically feel right at home on the very first day ...