Vaadin Blog
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 ...
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 ...