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Free Support is upon us
Offering a support option for your products is something every software vendor just has to have, and so do we at Vaadin. In Vaadin’s case, however, the support option needs to be extra good and bring more value than your average support subscription, because the Open Source product itself already ...
Dev Day Berlin Early Bird
What should my application architecture look like, so that it scales when my application’s userbase grows? What would be the best way to learn about the best practices with Vaadin? How about if we already have a large team working on Vaadin and we want to minimize boilerplate? The way to learn the ...
CUBA Studio — How we use Vaadin for our Web Development Tool
CUBA Platform is a fairly new and rapidly growing Java framework for efficient enterprise application development. A significant part of its success can be associated with its own development tool - CUBA Studio, which is Vaadin-faced to the users. Often, to employ one or another framework, you have ...
Community Spotlight - January 2016
In the end of last year, our Community Spotlights were quite focused on new add-ons published to Directory. It has been really active on that front lately as well, but this time, let’s concentrate on some of the most interesting articles and examples you have recently created. MVP in Vaadin Spring ...
Web Components in production use – are we there yet?
A lot of progress has been made since the introduction of web components back in 2011 but are they supported across all browsers. Are we there yet? While browser vendors are still working on native implementations, libraries have been able to use a polyfill to make web components available to ...
Designing your Vaadin based Domino applications
IBM Domino has been an application development platform for more than two decades, built on a NoSQL data store with strong security, database replication, an HTTP server and more. In 2009 IBM added a JSF-based web development framework and runtime called XPages to provide a more standard platform ...
Guidelines on creating templates for Vaadin Designer
Vaadin Designer templates allow you to reuse design patterns and skip some of the repetitive configuration you need to do when you create your application’s views. I’d like to share some guidelines on what templates are best for and what are the few things you need to take into account when ...
Vaadin Docs – a step further to online documentation
A few years ago Vaadin was a company with only one big product, namely Vaadin Framework. The documentation for Vaadin Framework has been presented in the form of Book of Vaadin, which we are very proud of and to be honest, the name has always been a nice addition, as well. Over the years, however, ...
New extension points for Grid
In Vaadin 7.6 we have made a huge effort for customisations in the Grid component. Two major customisation points are the selection models used in Grid and the event handling in Editor. Client-side customisations are possible for both of them, and can have a huge effect on the UX and the behaviour ...