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Migrating from JSP and JSF to Vaadin Made Easy
The first step in migrating from JSF or JSP based solutions to a single-page web app with Vaadin is commonly to integrate some views of your existing app to a Vaadin based app. Integrating Vaadin to existing JSF and JSP-based (such as Struts, Stripes, or Turbine) applications just got easier. I ...
Date Picker and Upload Element 1.0 betas released
Choosing a date is a common requirement in business applications. We wanted to provide an effortless and intuitive way of scrolling through months and years to find the date you are looking for. As a result, we just released the vaadin-date-picker element with two scrolling areas – one for months ...
Free Vaadin Certification and Training webinar in two weeks
Are you a Vaadin Certified Developer? If your answer is no, now you’ll have the chance to get certified for free. Between April 25th and May 1st we’re hosting a free certification week again, combined with a webinar with content from the first commercial Vaadin Training. Not only will your CV look ...
Vaadin combo box reimagined as a Polymer element – 1.0 beta ready to be used in desktop and mobile applications
Business app workhorse If a data table/grid is the most prominent and defining component of a UI framework, the combo box might be the most commonly used of the more complex widgets in business applications. It is very helpful for the users in situations where they have a very long list of options ...
Comparison Tool for Web Frameworks
When encountering something new, such as a new web framework, we’d like to quickly put it into context in order to know what it is and what problem it’s trying to solve. This is how the human mind works – we compare new things to previous experiences to be able to quickly decide if it’s a thing for ...
CDN is here – a global network of widgetsets
Widgetsets – those pesky little creatures living inside your browsers are the pain point of any developer. You know they speed up your app for your clients but it’s a pain in the llama’s ass to compile a new one after adding a new add-on to your project. We felt your pain and are thus happy to ...
Vaadin Charts 3.0 Is Here
Vaadin Charts 3.0 Final is out now. It brings you OHLC and candlestick chart types for displaying financial data, a way to display event markers on a graph, a new improved timeline mode, and a lot of fixes and smaller improvements. It is also our first commercial add-on that is available for ...
Using ContextMenu with Vaadin 7.6
Although Vaadin ContextMenu was published as a separate add-on in Directory, we tend to consider it as a feature of the recent 7.6 release. The latest minor release added essential hooks that make it simple to catch raw “contextmenu” events and build components that take the advantage of them. As ...
Community Survey February Results
We’re running a continuous survey on the Vaadin community to understand where you are and what other tech you’re using with Vaadin. We can see that there are approximately 150 000 developers using Vaadin actively so a few hundred can only tell you so much – but it’s nonetheless important ...