Vaadin Blog
Tori, the Liferay forum on steroids
We're pleased to announce the public release of Tori – the modern and sleek discussion forum for Liferay portal. We've kept Tori under the blanket while developing it and gathering feedback from you in the Vaadin community for more than a year, but now the time has finally come to turn on the ...
Webdriver and object oriented testing in TestBench 4
Vaadin TestBench is a browser automation tool, suited for creating UI level tests for Vaadin applications. It is based on Selenium 2, which means that all features of Selenium 2/WebDriver are also available in TestBench. But what exactly does Selenium 2 / WebDriver do? And how does Vaadin TestBench ...
Vaadin switching to C#
UPDATE April 2nd 2014: This was an April fools joke. We thank all that shared the joke with us in social media and all other places and made the laugh for the day. Thanks for the hundreds of positive feedback. When you thought Vaadin 7.2 and 7.3 were on the way, we've been hard at work on a secret ...
Crowdsourcing Vaadin with Codetrails Connect
Vaadin is a powerful framework that makes developing web applications easy. But as with any technology, getting up to speed can be a challenge, great tutorials notwithstanding. This is why last year, we at Codetrails applied our data-mining expertise, analyzing dozens of example applications, to ...
Congratulations - You passed the exam
Last week we celebrated 1 year of online Vaadin certification exams with free exams for the entire week. We were following the score in real-time at the Vaadin office and were excited to see more and more people join in taking the exam, even as late as Sunday evening right before the time to take ...
Vaadin UIs in XML webinar
Our latest webinar was a discussion about using declarative XML to define Vaadin user interfaces. I was joined by Pekka Perälä and we discussed the benefits of declarative UIs and introduced the Clara add-on. You might also want to take a look at my previous blog post about Clara. During the ...
February survey results - Learning and doing with Vaadin
Last month we ran a survey at vaadin.com to better understand how you learn and find information about Vaadin Framework and tools. Learn Vaadin There are a ton of web resources for people starting to learn Vaadin, but the most important source of information is still Book of Vaadin - also available ...
Vaadin meets eXo Platform - Run your favorite apps in an open social collaboration platform
In addition to providing out-of-the-box social-collaboration, eXo Platform is a user experience platform (UXP). It comes with a full set of social intranet UX-oriented features such as a wiki, forum, calendar, activity stream, community spaces as well as an out-of-the-box CMS and document ...
Responsive layouts with Vaadin and Sass
As a rehearsal for my workshop at GWT.create 2013, I gave an internal presentation/workshop last year about responsive layouts in Vaadin. The workshops at the conference weren’t recorded, but fortunately we record all of our internal presentations and trainings, so you have a chance to see this ...