Vaadin 7.2.0 - "Mainz"

The next minor version of Vaadin 7 series is available for application developers around the world. Like we stated earlier, this is the second step in our iterative process of adding new features to Vaadin 7. So, let’s get started with these. Make more responsive applications This actually means ...

Two-factor authentication with Google Authenticator

Two-factor authentication (also “two-step verification”) is, in short, when authentication involves two stages - quite often some sort of one-time password (OTP) in addition to your regular password (video). Online banking has been using this for quite some time, and lately the method has also been ...

Pro Tools price changes

We are going to change the pricing of Vaadin Pro Tools at the beginning of July, but in order to make it a soft drop, we wanted to give you a chance to subscribe with the lower price and continue using it for the foreseeable future. Starting July 1st, 2014 the new pricing will be: One month / ...

Vaadin Community Spotlight - April 2014

Vaadin community is huge and growing. There is lots of stuff happening “behind the scenes” that don’t get enough attention among our average users. Thus we have decided to start this new style of article series that will bring up some cool efforts. To keep the story short enough, we’ll never be ...

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 ...