Your wait is over - Vaadin Plug-in for NetBeans is here

After having an unofficial plugin for NetBeans IDE since the year 2009 we are happy to announce the first version of Vaadin’s official plugin for NetBeans IDE. The unofficial plugin was almost an internal jest thanks to its development model. It was first loosely based on Vaadin’s own Teemu’s ...

Product Direction

Vaadin 7 was a huge thing for all of the Vaadin community. Where should we go next? Before jumping into details on what exactly we are going to be doing tomorrow, next month or by the end of the year, let's look at the big picture on what we are trying to do in a long run... Making building the ...

Vaadin at the University (Lecture 2)

Rise 'n' shine - it is Friday, and time for another Vaadin lecture. Previously I guided you through the process of installing Vaadin plugin into Eclipse. Now that you are ready to code, let’s get to know the most important building blocks of any Vaadin application: the UI components. Today’s ...

Making your Vaadin app easy to theme

As a Vaadin Designer, I spend a lot of time theming Other People’s Apps. Unfortunately, as I have learned over the years, many people seem to end up building apps that don’t like to be themed. If you, however, want to reduce the time and effort needed to theme your app, then here are some best ...

Vaadin at the University

Vaadin HQ is located in Turku, Finland, a city with a long university tradition. Furthermore, our premises are just a few minutes away from the ICT House, a building that is a home to the IT departments of the two universities in Turku. Finally, the Department of Information Technology of the ...

GWT.create agenda is awesome

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who submitted a presentation proposal to the conference – being able to choose from over 100 high quality presentations was amazing. Fortunately the content team did not fear the challenge and spent many long nights debating the merits of each talk. It ...

Vaadin Development Team Update 8/2013

The last month can be summarized as Vaadin 7.1.2, some not yet released fixes and some internal fiddling and brainstorming. That was easy. Anything else? With no exciting concrete news to report, I’ll instead take a more human approach. I’m happy to announce a 33% increase in the manpower of the ...

Vaadin Refcard updated

Heads up everyone who uses reference cards and cheat sheets: The DZone Refcard #85 has been updated. In case you are not familiar with these cheat sheets, they are free quick reference guides for developers & IT professionals, a fairly simple way to stay on top of the newest technologies and ...

Vaadin at OpenNMS Dev Jam

A few weeks back Vaadin attended the OpenNMS Dev Jam event that was held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. OpenNMS is an open source enterprise grade network management application platform that has a highly engaged community of developers. More than 30 developers around the world ...