Vaadin Blog
Stéphane Nicoll: Vaadin’s ability to integrate with your backend is quite unique
If you follow the world of Java and Open Source, there’s a big chance that you have stumbled upon articles, videos, forum answers, talks, and code from Stéphane Nicoll. I had the pleasure of meeting Stéphane some days ago at Vaadin’s headquarters in Finland and I interviewed him about Spring Boot ...
Take a REST by integrating Salesforce into Vaadin
Consuming RESTful web services is quite a common topic currently. Many of the trendy microservices just provide a RESTful API which must then be consumed from the UI layer. Salesforce provides a rather complete UI for their services, but they also provide excellent hooks for developers to build ...

The Free Vaadin Certification Week is on again!
Have you ever wanted to show that you have what it takes to be a Vaadin expert? Then this is your chance to join the over 795 Certified Vaadin developers all over the globe and prove your skills. The certification week is between November 28th and December 4th 2016. Not only will you get an ...
Getting started with Java EE and Spring
One of the most interesting findings in the latest Vaadin Community Survey was that Java EE is used slightly more than Spring Framework among developers. Although the difference between the Java EE and Spring Framework shares is small, if we combine both, we get that 73% of the developers using ...
State of Web Components in real life app development
The collaborative Vaadin, Polymer, and Skate web platform study is almost over and we have some great initial results! After opening one month ago we’ve received over 700 responses from every kind of developer. Architects, managers, hobbyists, students, all answered our fifteen minute survey about ...
Vaadin Spring 1.1 is out
I’m pleased to announce that a new version of Vaadin Spring is released! The version 1.1 brings a major enhancement for Navigator and View handling, which shaves away a lot of boilerplate code from non-trivial applications that have multiple views. Spring powered Navigator The big new feature in ...
Using Vaadin Elements with Vaadin Framework
Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. Many Vaadin Framework users have been wondering why we have started the pure client-side Vaadin Components project. As discussed last month, the ultimate plan is to start using these Web Components based client-side components in the client side of ...
New Vaadin Training: Learn about Progressive Web Apps with Polymer
We are proud to present a new training course “Building Progressive Web Apps with Polymer”. The course is intended for anybody wanting to learn more about Web Components, Google’s Polymer library and Progressive Web Applications (PWAs). You’ll also get to know Vaadin Elements, which are built with ...
Spring Boot - a perfect platform for a Vaadin UI
Vaadin Framework is a web app UI framework that requires just a Java virtual machine and a servlet container. In theory that is all you need to build your application, but for most real business apps, you are much better off when you base your app on some application framework. Spring Framework and ...