Vaadin Community Spotlight - September 2014

Lots of things have happened for Vaadin users after the summer holidays. There have been many official releases, mostly built around Vaadin 7.3 and the new Valo theme engine. We even titled September as the “Month of Valo” with, among others, JAXenter.de covering the release and More Vaadin writing ...

Web Application Scalability - Executive Summary

I recently had a privilege to put my head together with Arun Gupta from RedHat about web application scalability. We couldn’t come up with any silver bullets for this sometimes scary topic - there isn’t one. There are lots of different kinds of applications and they all have their optimal setups ...

Come and meet Vaadin at JavaOne 2014

One of the most anticipated events of the year for Java developers is soon here - JavaOne 2014. JavaOne will be held in San Francisco, CA, on September 28th to October 2nd with technical sessions, keynote presentations, exhibits, and of course the expo floor with, among others, the Vaadin team at ...

Vaadin TouchKit 4 - All devices. Supported.

Following the recent release of Vaadin 7.3, we are proud to announce Vaadin TouchKit 4. Mobile development basically has two main strategies: native and web. There are also hybrid approaches, which mix both strategies. Vaadin TouchKit 4 gets you on the fast track of the mobile web strategy. Vaadin ...

FLOWFACT Mobile with Vaadin TouchKit

The latest addition to the Who is Using Vaadin success stories is FLOWFACT – a German company catering the real-estate sector. The work they had put into their Vaadin-based application supporting mobile-first got us interested so we sat down with Andreas Runschke, Product Manager from FLOWFACT AG, ...

Writing reusable UI code

When writing a larger application, you most likely want to structure your code so that it is easy to maintain. There are a number of factors that affect how easy your code is to maintain, one of the major ones being the structure of your code. If you have your view logic, business logic and maybe ...

The new Vaadin Dock is here

What is Vaadin used for? The Vaadin Dock Magazine gathers the best and the latest stories about and around Vaadin - the roadmap for the framework, amazing real-life Vaadin usage highlights and stories from the Vaadin office. Dock has now been updated and a brand new edition is ready for you to ...

Vaadin 7.3: Make your web apps shine

Vaadin 7.3 has arrived. It has been a long run starting from the development of a new Java-based Sass compiler, but today you can enjoy the results. Valo - theme above all others Valo is the name of the new visual theme in Vaadin 7.3.0. The Finnish word “valo” stands for “light” and the name ...

Using CORS with Vaadin

Can I use Vaadin, if my site does not run on a Java server? Let’s say you have a site, a blog or similar on a server that you have no access to, or it even has no Java capabilities, but you would still like to embed and run a Vaadin application there. To do this you would need to run your Vaadin ...