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Enabling HTTPS in your Java server using a free certificate
Using HTTPS connections in web application client-server communication has grown to be more and more common nowadays. In fact, for some types of applications, it’s become a requirement. For example, if you want to use Geolocation API in a web app running in Chrome, you need to have HTTPS enabled. ...
Customer Sponsored Vaadin TreeGrid Released
We are very pleased to announce the release of the Vaadin TreeGrid add-on, which is now freely available in Vaadin Directory. Similar to the TreeTable extension to Table, Vaadin TreeGrid allows users to edit and present hierarchical data sources in the Grid component. The development of the add-on ...
Implementing 'remember me' with Vaadin
One of the most common features for a login form is the remember me feature that allows users to be automatically signed in from a certain machine even after the HTTP session expires: Web applications usually implement this feature by using cookies. When the user selects the remember me option and ...
Anastasia solves everyday problems with her team - it was love at first sight with Vaadin <3
Sometimes things just click. Anastasia is studying for a Master’s degree in Information Technology at the University of Turku and at the end of 2015 she was looking for an interesting topic to cover in her Bachelor’s thesis. “My journey with Vaadin started with my Bachelor’s thesis, which was a ...
2016 Recap
That’s it folks. We are ready to move this year into the “Done” column. I guess we are all eager to jump ahead to 2017 already, but let’s take the traditional retrospective of 2016 before doing that. As a company we have continued the steady growth. Our internal chat channel now lists 137 members. ...
Vaadin 8 beta is out - we need your help!
Update: We are now in RC state, help us to iron out the last bugs before first stable release! I’m happy to announce that the first beta version of the next major Vaadin Framework release is out. As discussed earlier, version 8 is a huge step forward taking advantage of the greatest and latest Java ...
GitHub transition: completed
Like the most active of you have already noticed, Vaadin has been moving its open source functions to GitHub. Today, we can finally say we are there. Vaadin Framework is the biggest and the most important project to adapt a fully GitHub based workflow. What does this mean to you? In short: forget ...
Date-picker gets even better for December
Vaadin Elements has just been updated with improvement to vaadin-date-picker. This update brings some customizability to the element, as well as accessibility and performance improvements. Max and min date limits can now be added with the `min` and `max` properties. Now you’ll never accidentally ...
Community Spotlight - November 2016
The past months have been amazing for Vaadin Directory. We have close to 700 published add-ons! In this month’s Community Spotlight I’d like to highlight some of the new add-ons contributed by our community in the last six months. Although I’m only featuring completely new add-ons here, there are ...