Vaadin Blog
State of Vaadin Community 2013
In the end of 2013 we ran a survey on vaadin.com to learn more about how we all as the community are currently using Vaadin, and what do people love and hate about it. We got over 200 responses and here is what we know now. Professional Vaadin users We are a professional open-source community. When ...
Grails integration with Vaadin
When we were developing Vaadin applications, we were feeling excited about how the development of a user interface was easy. We could play with the UI and still think about it as object structures in Java. Then we started to think over how beneficial integrating Spring framework into Vaadin could ...
The Future of GWT Report 2013
When we ran the Future of GWT survey for the first time in 2012, the number of responses overwhelmed us. We titled the report "The Future of GWT" because we wanted to know if there was any truth in the rumors that GWT was slowing down. With over 1300 responses, it showed us and the world that GWT ...
Clara - Declarative UIs for the server-side
Vaadin is all about user interfaces. And to be more exact, Vaadin is all about creating user interfaces by programming in Java. This is all good and nice, but there are also other ways to build your UIs. In this blog post I will present a quick introduction to one option – Clara add-on. As a Vaadin ...
Vaadin at the University wrap-up
The year is (almost) over and so is this year’s Vaadin at the University video series, available at our official YouTube channel. I hope you have enjoyed watching them and improved your knowledge about Vaadin. In case you missed some of the videos or you want to watch them again, here are the ...
GWT.create starts next week
When we announced GWT.create earlier this year in May, we had no idea how much interest there would be for a GWT focused conference on two continents. We got over 100 high quality Calls For Presentations and ended up with over 60 presentations, workshops and keynotes from the most prominent figures ...
RebelLabs publishes two practical reports on Java web frameworks for 2014
Did you know that there are far more than 50 web and server-side frameworks out there for Java? And these are just the top ones supported by the majority of the tools community. There are many reasons why you might want to try a new Java web framework. Here are a few: A new project brings different ...
Lecture - User eXperience and User Interface design
Bad usability wastes users’ time, it increases the risk of user error and worst; it can make your users hate you. We all as Vaadin users know this, and Vaadin as a component based framework helps us on the way. However it’s still our own responsibility to create applications that our users know how ...
Tools and Support Renewed
Today we are fine-tuning our offering related to tools and support. We hope that with these changes an even larger part of the community is able to benefit from them – opening up an opportunity for us to collaborate directly with many more developers who use Vaadin today. Splitting Pro Account We ...
