Vaadin Blog
Crowdsourcing Vaadin with Codetrails Connect
Vaadin is a powerful framework that makes developing web applications easy. But as with any technology, getting up to speed can be a challenge, great tutorials notwithstanding. This is why last year, we at Codetrails applied our data-mining expertise, analyzing dozens of example applications, to ...
Congratulations - You passed the exam
Last week we celebrated 1 year of online Vaadin certification exams with free exams for the entire week. We were following the score in real-time at the Vaadin office and were excited to see more and more people join in taking the exam, even as late as Sunday evening right before the time to take ...
Vaadin UIs in XML webinar
Our latest webinar was a discussion about using declarative XML to define Vaadin user interfaces. I was joined by Pekka Perälä and we discussed the benefits of declarative UIs and introduced the Clara add-on. You might also want to take a look at my previous blog post about Clara. During the ...
It is time to get a Vaadin certificate
We launched Vaadin 7 Certification almost a year ago to follow the initial Vaadin 7.0 release. The few hundred of you who have taken the exam have given us valuable feedback on the certification. Now, nearly one year later, we're happy to announce new, revised certification questions. To celebrate ...
February survey results - Learning and doing with Vaadin
Last month we ran a survey at vaadin.com to better understand how you learn and find information about Vaadin Framework and tools. Learn Vaadin There are a ton of web resources for people starting to learn Vaadin, but the most important source of information is still Book of Vaadin - also available ...
Vaadin meets eXo Platform - Run your favorite apps in an open social collaboration platform
In addition to providing out-of-the-box social-collaboration, eXo Platform is a user experience platform (UXP). It comes with a full set of social intranet UX-oriented features such as a wiki, forum, calendar, activity stream, community spaces as well as an out-of-the-box CMS and document ...
Full Apache stack for the Apache licensed RIA framework
Apache TomEE is an increasingly popular certified Java EE server that is based on Tomcat and other Apache libraries like OpenJPA and OpenEJB. The fundamental idea behind the project is to customize the widely beloved Tomcat as little as possible, throw in required (Apache) libraries and certify the ...
Responsive layouts with Vaadin and Sass
As a rehearsal for my workshop at GWT.create 2013, I gave an internal presentation/workshop last year about responsive layouts in Vaadin. The workshops at the conference weren’t recorded, but fortunately we record all of our internal presentations and trainings, so you have a chance to see this ...
Spring Time for Vaadin
Originally, the idea of the webinar was to show you how Spring has been used in different Vaadin projects in the past. However, once Josh Long from Pivotal got involved, we ended up creating a first prototype of a completely new integration that will sweep the floor with the conventional ways. This ...