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Ping Vaadin Designer Team - What's Up?
It has been some time since the last update from the Vaadin Designer team, and I bet that some of you have been wondering what we have been up to - and I know many are curious about the IntelliJ IDEA support. You can rest assured we have been working (and playing) hard to bring you the best ...
Building a web UI for MySQL databases (in plain Java)
Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. This guide walks you through the process of connecting to MySQL databases from Java web applications using JDBC and Spring Framework. The UI part will be built using Vaadin Framework that allows you to build modern single-page web apps with only ...
Vaadin Eclipse plugin 3.0 - now with first class Maven support
A couple of years ago, along with the release of Vaadin 7, we chose our Eclipse plugin to be based on a dependency management tool called IVY. Still most of us, even most of the Eclipse users, are not using IVY. This has naturally made the plugin irrelevant for most Vaadin Eclipse users, but today, ...
Community Spotlight - May 2016
In this month’s Community Spotlight, I’d like to summarize some of the new add-ons that have been published in Vaadin Directory recently. We are close to reaching 600 add-ons, so a big thanks to everyone using and contributing to the framework. Keep sharing your widgets so that others can enjoy ...
Online trainings 20% off during Vaadin Summer School
Just like last year, we want to give you the chance to learn new things during the summer – and we’re thus running a discount on online trainings this summer as well. There are courses for all levels, from Vaadin Framework (2 days) to Vaadin Framework Best Practices (2 days) and from Vaadin ...
Filter based Spring Security in Vaadin applications
Spring Security’s web infrastructure is completely based on standard servlet filters. All requests go through a filter chain, where each filter does something with the request and decides whether to continue down the chain or stop and do something else. For example, a filter could check if the user ...
Dynamic HTML templates with FreeMarker and Vaadin
As you may already know, with Vaadin you don’t have to worry about HTML. However, this doesn’t mean that Vaadin would prevent you from using it. There might be cases in which you want to design a layout using plain HTML and add Vaadin components into it. Moreover, you might want to add ...
Community Spotlight - April 2016
For this month’s Community Spotlight, I interviewed Godfrey D. Beray. Godfrey D. Beray is a Senior Development Consultant at Cubeworks Technology Consulting & Solutions and IT Consultant for the F&C Group of Companies and Society Agri-Venture Enterprise in the Philippines. He's also a ...
What’s up in Vaadin R&D?
The core framework team, whose responsibility it is to develop Vaadin Framework, has been busy during the winter building a major update to the Vaadin Eclipse Plugin. But we have built many other new features during 2016 as well - most of them available for you to try today. We have also decided ...