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ICEPush wins the add-on compo for October
The ICEPush add-on has won the add-on competition for October leaving HbnContainer and CustomField to the second and third places. Here's what the add-on author, Artur Signell, has to say about his successful add-on. "One day in May there was a forum post about ICEfaces making a generic javascript ...
Vaadin and Liferay 6
I had the privilege to attend the Liferay Symposium in Frankfurt for the second time now. The symposium was very nicely organized, I guess mostly thanks to Laila Brown from Liferay for putting all the bits and pieces together for a very enjoyable conference. From my point of view it was also ...
A pleasant surprise....
[ Posted on behalf of Phil B ] Some time back, after my first introduction to Vaadin, I was on a small quest to understand how the integration with GWT actually worked. I managed to grab some of Sami’s community Friday time, he offered and I naturally accepted and we went thru the basics. In ...
Vaadin at JavaOne 2010
After a year since the Vaadin launch and the JavaOne is here again. We did not know what to expect, but seems that the reception in US exceeded all our expectations - Vaadin is very widely used to create enterprise applications of all kind. Actually, we are very excited! There are so many companies ...
Where is Vaadin TouchKit heading?
In this second post on mobile web application development and Vaadin TouchKit, I’ll be talking about the future of TouchKit. With TouchKit 1.0 released, development focus will be switched to TouchKit 2.0. The biggest new feature in the following major release of TouchKit is support for building ...
Vaadin Add-on Compo August Update - LazyQueryContainer
A pleasant guest stopped at Vaadin office yesterday as Tommi Laukkanen - the author of LazyQueryContainer visited us. He took the trip here just to see what is it like in our offices - and maybe also to pick up the iPad he won in Vaadin Add-on Compo in August. Congratulations! The ...
Vaadin Add-ons Now Available With Maven
Today we rolled out a new version of the Vaadin Directory. This update is mostly about fulfilling a common feature request we have heard from the community, downloading add-ons via Maven repository. We have setup our own Maven repository for Vaadin Add-ons and already deployed existing add-ons ...
Discovering GlassFish 3 with Vaadin
One of my first assignments as a fresh employee of IT Mill was to investigate how well Vaadin integrates with the new GlassFish 3 application server. The last time I had used the "official JEE" was back in the 1.4 days, resulting in me becoming somewhat of a Spring fanatic. However, I had read that ...
Developing Vaadin TouchKit, Part 1
This is the first post in a series of three posts on Vaadin TouchKit and mobile web application development. In this first post, I’ll give a bit of background about how I got involved with developing Vaadin TouchKit and discuss some thoughts I’ve had during the development phase. The following ...