Vaadin Blog
Vaadin 7.4 released
Welcome to the next 7-series release. Even though this is called a "minor release", Vaadin 7.4 includes some enhancements which are actually making it a huge step forward. The Grid - for all your data First things first. The Table component has been one of the most prominent components in Vaadin ...
Offline Mode for TouchKit 4 Mobile Apps
Background Vaadin is primarily a server-side framework. What happens with the application when the server is not available? Although this is possible on desktop computers, more often it happens when using a mobile device. This is why Vaadin TouchKit allows you to define offline behaviour. In this ...
Vaadin and Maven just got better
Vaadin has been supporting Maven for years already, and we recently had a major update of Vaadin archetypes. Now, that we are getting closer to Vaadin 7.4, we have been updating them again but we also wanted to update the documentation add some helpers to make you more productive. Bootstrap your ...
GWT.create full of great presentations
This year we had a total of 41 great speakers at GWT.create in Mountain View and Munich giving over 80 presentations. We asked the 656 attendees to rate the presentations on scale from 1–5 and got a total of 2377 votes. Average ratings given was 4.0 / 5.0. Pretty good, eh? Top 15 presentations Here ...
Community Spotlight - January 2015
In the last community spotlight, the focus was on add-ons and celebrating the first 500 of them. Let’s dedicate this month’s episode solely for community efforts that are NOT in the Directory and that are not Vaadin add-ons. No library is an Island, entire of itself Nicolas Frankel, known of his ...
From the Labs: Vaadin Components and Elements
Vaadin is one of the most used Java frameworks for the web today. In our effort of bridging the gap from HTML to Java backends, we constantly investigate new technologies that make sense for web developers. Now, there are two early works available in Vaadin Labs that you might want to try ...
Vaadin Designer from Vaadin Labs
When introducing Vaadin to new people, one of the most frequently asked questions has been “do you also have a visual designer for Vaadin”? While the answer has been “yes” for a long time, the old designer has not been evolving with the framework. This changes today. Vaadin Designer - the next ...
DevOps for your agile software process
"DevOps (a portmanteau of "development" and "operations") is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and Information Technology professionals. DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software development and IT ...
Community Spotlight - Celebrating year 2015 with 500 Vaadin Add-ons
The year 2014 ended with a remarkable milestone for Vaadin: There are now 500 publicly available extensions and helpers available for Vaadin users via Vaadin Directory. Although there are some “official” Vaadin Ltd backed artifacts available as well, this is mostly a community effort. Thank You! ...