Sending web push notifications from Spring Boot

Web push notifications are a way of informing your app users when something important has happened. Users can receive web push notifications even when they are not actively using your application, for instance, if the app is open in a background tab or even if it's not open. A notification message ...
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Why Vaadin is the Java web platform your team needs (and how to convince your boss)

Updated for 2024 to reflect the latest developments at Vaadin. You’ve just discovered Vaadin, a platform that lets you build full-stack web apps (including UI) 100% in Java. After testing it, you’ve seen how quickly it can create sleek, modern UIs. Vaadin clearly boosts productivity, ensures a ...

Hot-deploy your code – keep focus on your work

Time is money. Something that I still don’t get is that many Java developers spend a lot of it (time and money) while waiting to see their latest code changes in action. JVM is known for its great peak performance when serving large numbers of users, but our tooling isn’t by default that well ...

Reactive endpoints: pushing data to the frontend

Despite being on the web where millions or billions of people move around every day, web applications always tend to start out as being single-user applications. Not in the sense that only one user can log in or one user can use the application at a time but, as a user of the application, you don’t ...

It’s time for hardware multi-factor authentication

Proper use of multi-factor authentication could stop most of the cyberattacks we see today, yet adoption remains low. Good security is usually at the expense of convenience, and multi-factor solutions that are easy to use are hard to implement. Fortunately, technology can be used to offset this ...

Turo Italia enabled real-time collaboration for their CRM

A new version of Turo Italia’s Customer Resource Management (or CRM) system was released at the end of 2021. Built with Vaadin 14, it enables real-time collaboration between users thanks to the Vaadin Collaboration Kit. Turo Italia is now looking at Vaadin 23 for new data-provider functionality and ...

Vaadin apps as native executables using Quarkus Native

JVM is a monster – in a good way. Its architecture and especially the super-optimized just-in-time-compiler (JIT) help Java byte-code apps to run at a performance that makes startups rewrite their entire software when they grow up. But this amazing piece of engineering doesn’t come without a price. ...
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Deploying a Vaadin Application to IBM Cloud

This tutorial shows you how to deploy a Vaadin application to IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud offers a free Kubernetes Cluster, that expires after 30 days but can be re-provisioned. You can find details of their free and commercial services on the IBM Cloud website. Free IBM Cloud account required To complete ...
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OAuth 2 and Google Sign-in for a Vaadin Application

In this guide, we learn how to provide users with the ability to sign in to a Vaadin application using their Google account. This is a lightweight alternative to integrating a fully-fledged identity management server or SSO Kit into your stack. Using OAuth 2 in this manner already enhances security ...