Vaadin 7.6 preview: Improved communication mechanism

Have you ever seen this nasty warning? If so, Vaadin 7.6 will bring better times for you with its improved communication. It has better fault tolerance, error handling and feedback to the user! Error handling before was very simple The handling of temporary communication problems in Vaadin 7.5 and ...

A day in the life of a Vaadin Expert

We at Vaadin get hundreds of job applications each month, and the most common question of all applicants is, what a “normal day” for a Vaadin Expert looks like. To answer that let’s have a look at one of our Vaadin Experts, Mr. Petri Heinonen. Petri’s story is quite similar to those of others ...

Vaadin Spring 1.0.0 is out!

I’m honoured to announce that the beta period for Vaadin Spring integration library has ended and the first stable release, with version number 1.0.0, is now available. Using Vaadin (and plain Java) alone is not the best way to build large business applications. In any non-trivial application, ...

Host your JavaDoc’s online in GitHub

It’s Thursday evening and you have just finished your new awesome Vaadin Add-on. The very last commit is pushed to github, the .zip is uploaded to the directory, the release notes are updated, you lean back and take a five? Ok, you are great, but wait... Where is your add-on’s javadoc? Of course, ...

Vaadin Success Stories – renewed

Vaadin Success stories now encompasses some 120 different stories, with videos, screenshots and descriptions of different applications that are created with Vaadin. We’ve always wanted to tell real, relevant stories instead of just showing a cloud of logos - and will continue on this path. We’re ...

Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.1 is out with point to cell and grouping

Vaadin Spreadsheet gets a new and awaited minor release update. Version 1.1 is now available for download with these cool new features. Point-to-cell Probably the most used Excel feature is finally included in Vaadin Spreadsheet. Now you can create formulas by clicking a single cell or a group of ...

Vaadin and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

Is it possible to use IDEA Community Edition for Vaadin development? Community Edition is free (as well as Vaadin Framework itself) but it lacks some important Enterprise and Web-related features like HTML/Javascript/CSS language support, application servers integration, GWT support etc. Ultimate ...

Vaadin opens an office in Berlin

We are proud to open a brand new office in Berlin, Germany to be closer to our German customers and users. The office's main focus is on consulting with the goal of serving our German users better both commercially as well as in local meetups and at events. "We will hire at least 10 developers and ...

Community Spotlight - August 2015

We skipped the July’s episode due to summer vacations, so there are a lot of community efforts in the buffer. Here is just a part of the cool stuff that has happened in the Vaadin community during the past months. We’ll get to add-on updates and other articles in the next episode. Wajdi Almir Ahmad ...