Vaadin Blog
Don’t use Class.forName - OSGi and Vaadin
While Vaadin is about writing and reusing UI components, OSGi is a specification for writing bundles from which you create your application. It is not part of the Java EE specification, but still a very popular solution for managing application modularization. It helps you reuse your code, start ...
Community Survey October 2014
In October we decided to run a survey on the Vaadin community to get a better understanding of how you and your company see trainings and certifications as an internal competence builder. Having just had a certification week where over 160 new Vaadin Developers got certified, it didn’t come as a ...
Vaadin TestBench 4 - The next level of test automation
We are happy to announce that Vaadin TestBench 4.0 has been released today. While we maintained full backward compatibility, this is a major overhaul of the underlying technology, bringing some cool new ways of doing UI testing for your Vaadin applications. Typesafe UI testing In order to make it ...
Vaadin Boilerplate in Bluemix
We’re happy to launch as the first 3rd party boilerplate inside Bluemix. A Bluemix boilerplate is a runtime and an example application which in Vaadin's case is a fullstack example app with a CRUD view, statistics view, map view and all persisted through EJB services via JPA to DB2 and running on ...
An Interview with an Add-on wizard - Henri Kerola
We sat down with one of our Vaadin guys here at the office, famous for his super scalable add-ons, Henri Kerola. 1) Henri, you're the creator of the Scaladin addon. Where did the idea for the add-on come from and why Scala? I think the original idea of providing something that makes it easier to ...
Vaadin at Devoxx
Devoxx Belgium - filled with infinite possibilities Devoxx, every software developer’s wet techno dream, gathers over 3 500 developers in Belgium in the city of Antwerp, early next week. Antwerp used to be famous for its diamond imports to Europe but during the week of November 10th to 14th, it’s ...
Community Spotlight - October 2014
Our friends at Akquinet have been very active again this month. This time not with new UI components, but with some really cool RAD tools to get started with Vaadin apps. The Vaadinator project consists of a project template (maven archetype) and some code generator tools that automatically create ...
Spotted: Certified Vaadin Developers
Last week over 600 Vaadin enthusiasts took the Vaadin Certification exam. From these over 160 people showed the skills to receive the diploma and passed the exam. Congratulations for all of you who passed, you are now part of an elite group. Didn’t pass? Prepare. Based on the statistics, you can ...
Using Gatling to stress test your Vaadin apps
Today agile development, TDD and continuous deployment are well adopted concepts and load testing shouldn't be conducted at some later moment in a project, but as soon as possible and on a regular basis. Gatling - an open source stress testing tool for web applications The Gatling project was born ...