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Vaadin best practices are now available in a Zip-file
Vaadin best practices are now available for any business grade full stack application, in plain source code! We are happy to announce that we have just released a brand new product for anyone to get started with Vaadin the right way: Bakery App Starter for Vaadin Framework 8 and Spring. You can ...
Upgrading to Vaadin Framework 8 (Part 1 of 2)
With a major release, you would usually expect major modifications in the core of the framework. But this time, the migration is not too complicated. Not only because of the migration tool provided to make a smooth transition from Framework 7 to Framework 8, but also because of the similarity in ...
The new and fully customizable In-House Training is out!
Improve your skills whenever and from wherever you want. We are proud to present our new and fully customizable In-House Training. Benefit from a live and Vaadin Expert-led training for up to 16 attendees in a location of your choice. What is included? The new In-House Training can be fully ...
Designing REST APIs
Introduction If I had to guess, I would say that most Vaadin applications are self-contained, with the UI and the business logic packaged inside the same application archive and running inside the same Java virtual machine (VM). However, there are cases where it makes more sense to separate the UI ...
Community Spotlight - May 2017
For this month’s Community Spotlight I had the pleasure of talking with Nicolas Frankel, published author (Learning Vaadin, Learning Vaadin 7, and Integration Testing from the Trenches), developer, speaker, influencer, and passionate about technology. Find out his thoughts about Vaadin and what ...
Greetings from Vaadin Dev Day
Greetings from this spring’s Vaadin Dev Days! It was great fun to be a part of it again. We had a good full day of learning and a lot of inspiring discussions outside the official agenda. Typically it is the attendees who really make an event, and this time was no exception. The day was the best it ...
Vaadin Core Elements 2 Roadmap
Polymer 2 support, more components, and theming support These are exciting times for Web developers. More and more browsers have shipped native support for Web Components, allowing us to rely less on polyfills and finally realize the full potential of Web Components. You might have seen that Google ...
A Guide to migrating from GXT to Vaadin
Vaadin has always had a strong position when companies are evaluating the next platform to migrate their Java based desktop applications to. The programming model of Vaadin Framework is very similar to their existing codebase, which immediately makes Vaadin feel natural and productive to work with. ...
How to bind your form to your domain model – the Vaadin 8 style
Lots of web applications require the user to input some data in order to manipulate it later. This article shows how Vaadin makes this task easy to implement. We will be using Vaadin 8 and Java 8 in this article. The source code can be found at the following GitHub page: ...