Vaadin Blog
Community Spotlight - October 2016
It’s time for another Community Spotlight interview. This month with Jarek Toro, an enthusiastic programmer, Vaadin add-on author, and Software Developer working for Verne Software. Jarek learned Java and Vaadin in a record time earlier this year. Keep reading and find out how Vaadin helped him to ...
Vaadin Designer 1.1 released for IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse
Vaadin Designer is the most intuitive way to create beautiful web UIs. Great productivity is made out of two things: speed of building even the most complex layouts visually with drag-and-drop tools and having a clean separation of your UI design files and business logic. Vaadin Designer does all ...
Building components on top of Polymer
We at Vaadin have always been committed to creating great UX for businesses and helping developers build modern web apps. We’ve always strived to create better tools and components for all web developers. So in the past few years we’ve invested into Google Polymer as the library for building our ...
jOOQ and Vaadin: Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Work
I had the pleasure of talking with Lukas Eder, Java Champion and member of the board of the Java User Group Switzerland. Lukas has been a speaker at many Java conferences, such as Geekout, Geecon, and Devoxx, for many years. He also is the founder and CEO of Data Geekery, the company behind jOOQ, a ...
Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans
The latest Vaadin Community Survey showed that Eclipse is still the most used IDE to develop Vaadin applications. IntelliJ and NetBeans, nevertheless, make a not negligible 40% of the share: Most content out there is tailored to Eclipse users, and although Vaadin is IDE-agnostic, I figured it’d be ...
Dependency Injection, black magic or a must have tool for a modern Java application?
If you have passed your courses about object oriented programming, you know that loose coupling is something you should always strive for. There are many ways to achieve loose coupling. Inversion of control (IoC) using dependency injection (DI) is one way to improve the quality of your code. When a ...
Vaadin Support heroes in action
A typical day at Vaadin Support: tell us your problem, we give you the solution. We help with a huge variety of issues. Every customer has their specific circumstances which creates a challenge to our support heroes daily. However, we did solve a few generic problems recently and I’d like to share ...
Vaadin + jOOQ: Implementing Business Web Applications in Plain Java
Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. When speaking about business applications, you might find that a lot of them fall into the “data-centric” kind of application where SQL is frequently the key technology. Similarly, when speaking about web applications, you’ll end up with HTML ...
Progressive Web Apps on the Road
Progressive Web Apps have lately been the subject of a lot of discussion in the web development world. While some tout Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as the future of the web, others are more skeptical, while the majority of developers probably don’t even know what they are! Progressive Web Apps are ...