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Vaadin and GWT Meetup in San Francisco
Join us for our JavaOne meetup in San Francisco! October 2 will be the day, and Hotel Serrano will be the venue (it's just around the corner of JavaOne). Just follow the line from A to B on the map below. Everyone's welcome to talk with other Vaadin users starting from 5pm. We'll have some ...
The Future of GWT Survey
This year has brought many changes to GWT from Super Dev Mode and Elemental to the creation of the GWT Steering Committee (which Vaadin is proud to be a part of). As part of the committee, Vaadin would like to learn more about the community that we all serve, so together with Ray Cromwell (Google ...
Vaadin 7 Beta
After almost a year of development, the beta version of Vaadin 7 is finally here. Since the original mission statement, a lot has been done. While we did not manage to get in all of the planned features, we added some more - even managed to integrate the whole Google Web Toolkit into Vaadin. Before ...
State of Sass support in Vaadin 7 Today
I'm writing a few articles about the new theme features in Vaadin 7, mainly Sass and the new layouting and how those affect theme development. As you might have read from our newsletter or from various tweets, Vaadin 7 will include support for Sass (short for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets). As ...
How About Theming?
Theming a Vaadin application is not as frightening as some make it to be. It's just normal CSS with some Vaadin-related conventions, but not much more. In the end, you're using the same styles as with any HTML page. To get you started, check out these helpful links! Theming in Book of Vaadin ...
Bearing Good Messages
Our forums haven't been sending out email notifications on updated subscribed threads for a long time. Many of you have already noticed that, and have been in contact with us about the issue. We're terribly ashamed about the fact that it has been broken for so long, and thank each and everyone of ...
Vaadin 7 Loves JavaScript Components
NOTE: This blog post is outdated and the resources are no longer available. You can find an updated tutorial here. Using JavaScript components in Vaadin 7 is a breeze. Sure, Vaadin has had Window.executeJavaScript() for a good while now, but it's quite limited in what you can actually do with it. ...
New Book - Vaadin Recipes
We have another full-fledged book about Vaadin in the wild. Unsuspectedly, it arrived to us a few days ago, and naturally we took a peek at it. Vaadin Recipes, by Casey Taylor, is a brand spanking new book, written for Vaadin 6.8. The book is written in problem/solution pairs, and there's over 200 ...
Automated acceptance testing of TouchKit apps with Vaadin TestBench 3
TestBench is a tool especially designed for testing Vaadin based applications at the UI level. It simulates user interactions like clicks and typing using a real or headless browser. To verify correct behavior developers can assert values and data on the page and even perform advanced screenshot ...
