Vaadin Designer 1.4 and 2.2 released

The Designer team is pleased to announce the availability of the Designer 2.2 for Framework 8 and Designer 1.4 for Framework 7 for Eclipse and Intellij. Provide a way to access exported component through a getter Often you find yourself in a situation where you’d like to have access to an exported ...

Vaadin best practices are now available in a Zip-file

Vaadin best practices are now available for any business grade full stack application, in plain source code! We are happy to announce that we have just released a brand new product for anyone to get started with Vaadin the right way: Bakery App Starter for Vaadin Framework 8 and Spring. You can ...

Upgrading to Vaadin Framework 8 (Part 1 of 2)

With a major release, you would usually expect major modifications in the core of the framework. But this time, the migration is not too complicated. Not only because of the migration tool provided to make a smooth transition from Framework 7 to Framework 8, but also because of the similarity in ...

The new and fully customizable In-House Training is out!

Improve your skills whenever and from wherever you want. We are proud to present our new and fully customizable In-House Training. Benefit from a live and Vaadin Expert-led training for up to 16 attendees in a location of your choice. What is included? The new In-House Training can be fully ...

Client-side fail-over

Traditional clustering solutions focus on performing clustering tasks purely server-side. The browser only possesses one URL (one IP address) after all, so there is not much we can do (well, there is, but more on this later). Usually, the intent behind clustering is twofold: If one server computer ...

Designing REST APIs

Introduction If I had to guess, I would say that most Vaadin applications are self-contained, with the UI and the business logic packaged inside the same application archive and running inside the same Java virtual machine (VM). However, there are cases where it makes more sense to separate the UI ...

Vaadin 8 roadshow wrap up

Vaadin 8 simplifies the development of web apps for Java developers like never before. We wanted to spread the word, so we visited tens of JUGs and Vaadin meetup groups this spring. Following the major Vaadin 8 release in February, we have been traveling the world - In practice mostly Europe and ...

Building web apps with Vaadin and Kotlin

Kotlin, the new kid in the family of JVM-based languages, is slowly but steadily capturing the hearts of many Java developers while finding its way to many prominent Java-related projects, such as Android, Spring, and Gradle. Using Vaadin Flow with Kotlin to build web apps is also possible! I ...

Community Spotlight - May 2017

For this month’s Community Spotlight I had the pleasure of talking with Nicolas Frankel, published author (Learning Vaadin, Learning Vaadin 7, and Integration Testing from the Trenches), developer, speaker, influencer, and passionate about technology. Find out his thoughts about Vaadin and what ...