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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 ...
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 ...