Vaadin Blog
How to showcase a framework
Every framework has its own demo application and Vaadin has been famous for its Sampler. Sampler has served us well, showcasing Vaadin’s components, but also giving you as a developer an overview of how to create and use the components. Many Vaadin users have got started with Vaadin by copy pasting ...
Learn by Hacking
Stephen Chin runs Nighthacking lab sessions where people around the world can join together online for hacking with the latest Java-related technologies few hours a time. In June I had an opportunity to host Vaadin lab in Nighthacking broadcast. Vaadin Worldwide Hack Day video 1/2 Vaadin Worldwide ...
Using Infinispan as a persistency solution
Various RDBMSs are the de-facto standard for persistency. Using them is such a safe bet by architects that I dare say they are used in too many places nowadays. To fight against this, I have recently been exploring with alternative persistency options, like graph databases. This time I played with ...
Is my web application accessible?
One of the main goals for us at Vaadin is to make the world more connected, through the use of the web and by making it as easy as possible for you to create applications that millions of people can use, without you worrying about browser differences or which mobile, tablet or desktop platform your ...
GWT.create 2015 Program is Awesome
When we first arranged the GWT.create conference last December, we were blown away by the level of both speakers and attendees in the conference. How could we top that? We did not, you did: the word got around and you sent us even more amazing presentation proposals. With these ingredients it was ...
Fixing bugs in Vaadin
Here at Vaadin, we take software quality seriously. At the core of delivering quality software is learning from past mistakes and continuously improving the way we work. During the past few months, we have introduced some changes to the way we handle bugs. The two biggest improvements visible to ...
Community Spotlight - July 2014
After the rainy start, it has been a beautiful summer here in Finland. We have been enjoying our holidays and sailing a lot in the beautiful Finnish archipelago. But like all nerds, we wanted to collect data too. And for this purpose we created a small tracker application for our boats. This shows ...
How we run and test our apps - Community survey results
In June we asked you about how Vaadin applications go to production. What kind of apps do you use Vaadin for, what are the popular servers, and how regression testing is managed. A special thank you to everyone who took the time and answered. Here is what you said. Business. And more business. Most ...
Moving from General Interface to Vaadin
It has been announced that TIBCO has dropped the commercial support of General Interface (GI). Instead, it was advised to use some other well supported and maintained RIA framework. Well, Vaadin is a RIA framework, maintained and well supported. Let’s see how it compares to GI. Architectural ...