Vaadin Designer Beta is out!

Right now, right here, just for you, we have launched the most interesting Beta release of the whole year: we are proud to announce the Beta release of Vaadin Designer! Have you ever pondered how your layouts actually look while writing plain Java? Have you ever suffered from not having real-time ...

New Training course – Vaadin Framework & Java EE

I’m excited to announce that a new course has been added to our training offerings. Vaadin Framework & Java EE is the fourth course available, along with Vaadin Fundamentals, Advanced Vaadin and Extending Vaadin. The course has a two day program and is directed towards those who know the basics ...

Generating PDF files using ODT/DOCX templates

The PDF format has established a strong position as a format used for printing and archiving formal documents. This is why pretty much all software developers have at some point faced a requirement to create PDF files like receipts or reports. Developers in the JVM ecosystem have a huge set of ...

Vaadin Spreadsheet Webinar Wrap-Up

I hope you enjoyed our webinar about the Vaadin Spreadsheet. You can find all the source code and examples we showed during the session here. You'll find the two following projects: SpreadsheetDemo is the first example holding an empty spreadsheet - a minimalistic project sample. ...

Stop wasting time on redeploys

A common question we get after our webinars or other live coding exercises is, how we make our live coding look so fluent. Why don’t you need to redeploy your war file to show the changes? It is no stunt or a specially crafted marketing JVM – we're doing the real stuff. The “secret” is JRebel. ...

Vaadin Dev Day is here (in Frankfurt)!

Lots of people have been asking for a dedicated Vaadin Dev Day with hands-on trainings on how to use Vaadin with MVP, Java EE, Spring as well as how to use the theme engine Valo, how to test Vaadin apps, how to extend Vaadin, how to create declarative UIs with the Designer and how to optimize ...

Interview with Java EE expert Peter Lehto

We sat down with one of our Vaadin guys here at the office to learn more about his daily work and enterprise app development. Peter Lehto is, among others, famous for his contributions to Java EE and Spring from Webinars, conference speeches and contributions. Peter, thanks for sitting down with ...

Maven essentials for the impatient developer

We just recently published a new Maven page at vaadin.com/maven. It contains Maven “coordinates” for Vaadin projects and a super handy generic Maven repository search. But does it help you if you haven’t used Maven before? No. Are our most interesting Java examples built with Maven these days? Yes. ...

Don't marginalize your UX

I have seen hundreds of projects fail. But also much more projects succeed in the past 6 years I have worked at Vaadin. It doesn't really matter if it's a 10 person team in Texas or a 1 person project in Laos, they are all basically the same and succeed or fail for the same reason. Any library you ...