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Building a web UI for MySQL databases (in plain Java)
Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. This guide walks you through the process of connecting to MySQL databases from Java web applications using JDBC and Spring Framework. The UI part will be built using Vaadin Framework that allows you to build modern single-page web apps with only ...
Vaadin Eclipse plugin 3.0 - now with first class Maven support
A couple of years ago, along with the release of Vaadin 7, we chose our Eclipse plugin to be based on a dependency management tool called IVY. Still most of us, even most of the Eclipse users, are not using IVY. This has naturally made the plugin irrelevant for most Vaadin Eclipse users, but today, ...
Working at Vaadin – Sami Suo-Heikki
In this series, we’ll meet different people working at Vaadin and hear about their daily life. Sami Suo-Heikki started at Vaadin in January this year and today works as a Vaadin Developer in the Engineering department. Sami is working in the Elements team that is creating new Web Components for the ...
Community Spotlight - May 2016
In this month’s Community Spotlight, I’d like to summarize some of the new add-ons that have been published in Vaadin Directory recently. We are close to reaching 600 add-ons, so a big thanks to everyone using and contributing to the framework. Keep sharing your widgets so that others can enjoy ...
Online trainings 20% off during Vaadin Summer School
Just like last year, we want to give you the chance to learn new things during the summer – and we’re thus running a discount on online trainings this summer as well. There are courses for all levels, from Vaadin Framework (2 days) to Vaadin Framework Best Practices (2 days) and from Vaadin ...
Announcing Vaadin Core Elements 1.0
Vaadin has been in the business of building UI components for the web since our start in 2000. Over the years, we’ve built up a big library of components and more importantly we’ve learned a lot about what developers and businesses need from their components. With the introduction of the Web ...
Filter based Spring Security in Vaadin applications
Spring Security’s web infrastructure is completely based on standard servlet filters. All requests go through a filter chain, where each filter does something with the request and decides whether to continue down the chain or stop and do something else. For example, a filter could check if the user ...
What have we resolved lately?
Vaadin Support resolves a humongous variety of different tasks and issues all the time. It is actually fascinating to see all the different Vaadin projects our customers are working on and what they are struggling with. However, every now and then some issues surface that kind of repeat themselves. ...
Dynamic HTML templates with FreeMarker and Vaadin
As you may already know, with Vaadin you don’t have to worry about HTML. However, this doesn’t mean that Vaadin would prevent you from using it. There might be cases in which you want to design a layout using plain HTML and add Vaadin components into it. Moreover, you might want to add ...