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Vaadin Debug Window
Recently we hosted a webinar on how to use the Debug-window in your Vaadin application, going through all its benefits for you. Every application built with Vaadin Framework comes with a built-in feature to inspect the application. This feature is active in development mode (i.e. when ...
Using templates in Vaadin Designer
The Vaadin Designer 1.0 has been released packing a bunch of powerful features to help you quickly develop your application’s views. One of such features is the ability to use templates as a basis for your views. In this post I’ll teach you how to install and use the templates. First you need a ...
Vaadin Designer 1.0 has arrived
We are thrilled to announce the release of Vaadin Designer 1.0 after 6 months of intensive beta testing. Vaadin Designer is available for all developers, to be installed from Eclipse Marketplace today. Vaadin Designer is a tool that lets you edit and know exactly how your UI is looking every step ...
Building a mobile-first app with Polymer and Vaadin Elements
As you might have noticed, we at Vaadin have been experimenting with bringing our Grid and Charts components to a new audience by wrapping them into Polymer elements. Polymer is Google’s project to bring Web Components into developers’ hands and into production. I wanted to give the new elements a ...
Come and meet us at JavaOne 2015
Once again Vaadin packs up for the upcoming JavaOne 2015 and heads to San Francisco, US. JavaOne is ‘the event’ for Java enthusiasts, where one can hear the best speakers, get insights into the future of Java, and connect with other members of the Java community. Designer 1.0 and more At the booth ...
Vaadin pre-releases moved to new repository
We are getting closer to releasing our next minor release, 7.6. There has already been 7 alpha pre-releases and we hope to call them betas in the next couple of weeks. We encourage developers to use, or at least try, our pre-releases when working with projects without strict deadlines. This is an ...
Minimized Vaadin servers for IoT solutions
Trimming down the last bytes of deployment artifact size and server startup time has never really been a top priority for business app developers. These measures just need to be within reasonable values, and are seldom essential things in business applications, neither in development or production ...
More about Vaadin Font Icons
Using icons is a quick and effective way to visually represent content on the web. Icons can also aesthetically improve a site’s or application’s visual look and feel. Having all the icons in one font file is a very handy way of working with icons in design applications. Font icons being basically ...
Community Spotlight - September 2015
It’s been awhile since we last wrote about new add-ons in Vaadin Directory. Like we promised last month, this time we will take a look at some of the new add-ons and updates available. As usual, there is more new stuff than makes sense to list here. Thank you everyone for your awesome contributions ...