Vaadin Blog
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 ...
Take a REST by integrating Salesforce into Vaadin
Consuming RESTful web services is quite a common topic currently. Many of the trendy microservices just provide a RESTful API which must then be consumed from the UI layer. Salesforce provides a rather complete UI for their services, but they also provide excellent hooks for developers to build ...
The Free Vaadin Certification Week is on again!
Have you ever wanted to show that you have what it takes to be a Vaadin expert? Then this is your chance to join the over 795 Certified Vaadin developers all over the globe and prove your skills. The certification week is between November 28th and December 4th 2016. Not only will you get an ...
State of Web Components in real life app development
The collaborative Vaadin, Polymer, and Skate web platform study is almost over and we have some great initial results! After opening one month ago we’ve received over 700 responses from every kind of developer. Architects, managers, hobbyists, students, all answered our fifteen minute survey about ...
Vaadin Spring 1.1 is out
I’m pleased to announce that a new version of Vaadin Spring is released! The version 1.1 brings a major enhancement for Navigator and View handling, which shaves away a lot of boilerplate code from non-trivial applications that have multiple views. Spring powered Navigator The big new feature in ...