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Microservices: High availability
One of the objectives of microservices is to allow independent deployment and scaling of applications. We already learned how to create a UI composition in the previous article of this series. In this article, we’ll learn how to replicate stateful web applications to help supporting high ...
5 spinner web components for your site
Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. When it comes to loading or downloading, the longer you see a spinner, the more pain you will ...
5 datepicker web components for your site
Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Choosing a date is a very common task in any UI. Making that intuitive and easy for users can be ...
Convert from Java Swing to a Vaadin web app
Migrating applications is hard. I think most readers to relate to that. Everyone who has undertaken the task of migrating an existing application that is used in production has undoubtedly faced many pain points in the process. Migrating from Swing and a single-user desktop UI to the web comes with ...
Vaadin 10 Beta
I am really excited that we are finally ready to share the first beta of the next generation Vaadin platform with you after years of work. Before jumping to explaining what is in it, let's discuss a bit about the background. Built for the modern mobile-first web Today there are three significant ...
Microservices: UI composition
In this article, Microservices: UI composition, we'll learn how to implement two separate independent Vaadin applications rendered in a single web page. We have covered service discovery, externalized configuration, stateless services, and fault tolerance. In this article, we’ll learn how to ...
Microservices: Fault Tolerance
In the previous article of this series, we developed two functional microservices: a REST web service, and a web UI for it. In this article, we’ll add fault tolerance capabilities, by making the web UI resilient to failures in the REST web service. Why do we need this? Microservices depend on other ...
Microservices: Consuming stateless services from Vaadin UIs
In the previous articles of this series, we focused on developing orchestration services to enable microservices. We implemented a Discovery Server to let applications consume services without knowing their exact location, and a Configuration Server to allow microservices to run in multiple ...
Microservices: Externalized Configuration
In the previous article of this series, we implemented a Discovery Server to allow microservices to consume other microservices without knowing their exact location. The code is available on GitHub, and you can find the instructions to run the demo application in the first article of this series. ...