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Use XLSX files on the web with Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.3
Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. We are proud to announce the release of Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.3. Vaadin Spreadsheet is a Vaadin Add-on that enables you to use your existing Excel files online. Your files work as-is and come with the same styling and functions, just online. New features and ...
Community Spotlight - November 2016
The past months have been amazing for Vaadin Directory. We have close to 700 published add-ons! In this month’s Community Spotlight I’d like to highlight some of the new add-ons contributed by our community in the last six months. Although I’m only featuring completely new add-ons here, there are ...
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 ...