Vaadin Charts 2.0 Released

We are proud to announce the brand new version 2.0 of Vaadin Charts. Along with lots of smaller fixes and updates in this release, there are now even more visualizations to choose from! More chart types, more dimensions Even if the data does not get better with new charts, there are ways to make ...

Get on the right track with new Maven archetypes

Are you starting a new Vaadin application with Maven? If so, we have good news for you. To help you get started “on the right foot”, we are rolling out a few new Maven archetypes in the near future. The first one on the list, the vaadin-archetype-application-example aka the Book Inventory ...

BDD with Vaadin TestBench 4

Vaadin TestBench is an integration test tool, an extension to WebDriver. It simulates user interactions in real browser implementations. Thus, it is a great tool to really ensure things work as they should, from the browser level all the way to the database. From low-level UI testing... TestBench ...

Giants named HTML5 and JVM

14 years ago we saw a gap between web and Java - two rising platforms of the day. Since then we have been on a mission of bridging this gap. Some frameworks have considered these as two distant islands, where two separate tribes live speaking different languages. We continue to believe that ...

OSGifying your Add-ons

Last week we had an intro webinar to OSGi and using it with Vaadin. OSGi helps you to build modular applications where you can easily add, enable and disable modules at runtime. Most developers who have worked with OSGi projects know a minor pain point in OSGi development. There is a huge set of ...

Vaadin, CDI and Java EE compatibility

Vaadin CDI support became official today. While CDI features have been in use in practice for quite some time already, this is a major step in making the use of Java EE 7 technologies easier. Most of you are already more than familiar with Java EE “Web Profile”. Web Profile offers a complete stack ...

Community Spotlight - November 2014

Martin Vaněk is one of many who have recently discovered how awesome a combination Spring Boot and Vaadin make. He has written an excellent blog entry and an example application to use modern stuff like Java 8, Spring Boot, Vaadin, WebSockets and OAuth2 together and he hosts this beast in RedHat’s ...

Vaadin Trainings – your ticket to interstellar understanding

Have you already seen the movie Interstellar? After participating in a Vaadin Training, you can literally see the fifth dimension and get a much better understanding of how to build your Vaadin applications – just like in the movie. Except you don’t have to travel to a distant planet, you can ...

What’s new in GWT 2.7

GWT 2.7 was just released, 10 months after GWT 2.6, with the main focus on debugging and development speed through SuperDev mode and incremental compilation. GWT 2.7 has no doubt played a central role in Google’s latest Inbox for GMail release so let’s dive deeper into this new release. SuperDev ...