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Vaadin Elements in mobile apps
Vaadin Elements has been paving the way as the go-to UI components library for progressive web apps. But what about mobile apps? To use Vaadin Elements in a mobile app, you need to have the same web view as you would have in the browser. Thanks to open source SDKs, like Ionic with Cordova, you can ...
Building a Web UI for PostgreSQL Databases using MyBatis and Vaadin
This guide walks you through the process of connecting to PostgreSQL databases from Java web applications using MyBatis and Spring Framework. The UI part will be built using Vaadin Framework which allows you to build modern single-page web apps with only Java. When connecting to databases from Java ...
Community Spotlight - July 2016
It’s time for another chapter of the Community Spotlight! And for this month’s edition, I had the opportunity to have a nice chat with Marco Collovati, winner of the IBM/Vaadin Challenge, author of the Spinkit Add-on for Vaadin, and active member of the Vaadin Community. Marco lives in Udine, a ...
Displaying charts in Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.2
Vaadin Spreadsheet was already a very capable component, but today it got a lot smarter. The simplest recipe for spreadsheet in your web application is still the same: add the spreadsheet component to your application layout and throw an Excel at it. Now, as an added bonus in version 1.2, if the ...
Styling your Vaadin Charts
The aim of this article is to give you the tools to make your Vaadin Charts look the way you want them to look. We Finns are not much for small talk so let’s get right to business. There are two ways of theming your charts. You can either: theme each chart individually; or you can create a generic ...
Community Spotlight – June 2016
A few weeks back Vaadin organized a Progressive Web App programming competition, giving the winners a chance to attend Google Progressive Web App Developer Summit in Amsterdam. In this month’s Community Spotlight, we want to introduce the winners of the competition and showcase the cool projects ...
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, ...
