Vaadin Blog
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 ...
Framework 8 marches on and becomes 8.1
Just a couple of months ago we released Vaadin Framework 8.0, a major version of our popular Java web framework that renewed the API and added dozens of improvements. Now, we are soon shipping version 8.1 which contains some highly requested features. The most interesting ones are: Components in ...
Greetings from Vaadin Dev Day
Greetings from this spring’s Vaadin Dev Days! It was great fun to be a part of it again. We had a good full day of learning and a lot of inspiring discussions outside the official agenda. Typically it is the attendees who really make an event, and this time was no exception. The day was the best it ...
Vaadin Core Elements 2 Roadmap
Polymer 2 support, more components, and theming support These are exciting times for Web developers. More and more browsers have shipped native support for Web Components, allowing us to rely less on polyfills and finally realize the full potential of Web Components. You might have seen that Google ...
A Guide to migrating from GXT to Vaadin
Vaadin has always had a strong position when companies are evaluating the next platform to migrate their Java based desktop applications to. The programming model of Vaadin Framework is very similar to their existing codebase, which immediately makes Vaadin feel natural and productive to work with. ...
How to bind your form to your domain model – the Vaadin 8 style
Lots of web applications require the user to input some data in order to manipulate it later. This article shows how Vaadin makes this task easy to implement. We will be using Vaadin 8 and Java 8 in this article. The source code can be found at the following GitHub page: ...
New Vaadin element for building stunning dashboards released
As hinted earlier, today the Vaadin Pro team is happy to introduce Vaadin Board. It is an element for creating flexible responsive layouts very easily. No need to hassle with CSS, you just write plain declarative code. Vaadin Board can be used to create dashboards, intro screens, image galleries or ...