Vaadin Blog
BDD with Vaadin TestBench 4
Vaadin TestBench is an integration test tool, an extension to WebDriver. It simulates user interactions in real browser implementations. Thus, it is a great tool to really ensure things work as they should, from the browser level all the way to the database. From low-level UI testing... TestBench ...
Giants named HTML5 and JVM
14 years ago we saw a gap between web and Java - two rising platforms of the day. Since then we have been on a mission of bridging this gap. Some frameworks have considered these as two distant islands, where two separate tribes live speaking different languages. We continue to believe that ...
OSGifying your Add-ons
Last week we had an intro webinar to OSGi and using it with Vaadin. OSGi helps you to build modular applications where you can easily add, enable and disable modules at runtime. Most developers who have worked with OSGi projects know a minor pain point in OSGi development. There is a huge set of ...
Community Spotlight - November 2014
Martin Vaněk is one of many who have recently discovered how awesome a combination Spring Boot and Vaadin make. He has written an excellent blog entry and an example application to use modern stuff like Java 8, Spring Boot, Vaadin, WebSockets and OAuth2 together and he hosts this beast in RedHat’s ...
Vaadin Trainings – your ticket to interstellar understanding
Have you already seen the movie Interstellar? After participating in a Vaadin Training, you can literally see the fifth dimension and get a much better understanding of how to build your Vaadin applications – just like in the movie. Except you don’t have to travel to a distant planet, you can ...
Don’t use Class.forName - OSGi and Vaadin
While Vaadin is about writing and reusing UI components, OSGi is a specification for writing bundles from which you create your application. It is not part of the Java EE specification, but still a very popular solution for managing application modularization. It helps you reuse your code, start ...
Vaadin TestBench 4 - The next level of test automation
We are happy to announce that Vaadin TestBench 4.0 has been released today. While we maintained full backward compatibility, this is a major overhaul of the underlying technology, bringing some cool new ways of doing UI testing for your Vaadin applications. Typesafe UI testing In order to make it ...
Vaadin Boilerplate in Bluemix
We’re happy to launch as the first 3rd party boilerplate inside Bluemix. A Bluemix boilerplate is a runtime and an example application which in Vaadin's case is a fullstack example app with a CRUD view, statistics view, map view and all persisted through EJB services via JPA to DB2 and running on ...
An Interview with an Add-on wizard - Henri Kerola
We sat down with one of our Vaadin guys here at the office, famous for his super scalable add-ons, Henri Kerola. 1) Henri, you're the creator of the Scaladin addon. Where did the idea for the add-on come from and why Scala? I think the original idea of providing something that makes it easier to ...