Develop a full-stack Java application with Kafka and Spring Boot

What You Will Build You will build a full-stack reactive web app that sends and receives messages through Kafka. The app uses Spring Boot and Java on the server, Lit and TypeScript on the client, and the Hilla framework for components and communication. A browser window with an app showing one ...
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Learn from the best – productivity tips from software architect Petter Holmström

Vaadin not only develops frameworks for building applications. We also develop actual applications. In all of these, we use our tools to some extent, but many deliveries by our Services department are fundamentally generic Java software projects, or consulting on them. This is probably the place to ...
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Inheritance vs Composition in Web Components

As developers, we strive for efficiency – not only in our code, but also in the software development process itself. One way to achieve this efficiency is to avoid redundancy and prioritize code reuse, so that we do not end up reinventing the wheel. Two tools that we have in our arsenal to achieve ...

Hot-deploy your code – keep focus on your work

Time is money. Something that I still don’t get is that many Java developers spend a lot of it (time and money) while waiting to see their latest code changes in action. JVM is known for its great peak performance when serving large numbers of users, but our tooling isn’t by default that well ...

Reactive endpoints: pushing data to the frontend

Despite being on the web where millions or billions of people move around every day, web applications always tend to start out as being single-user applications. Not in the sense that only one user can log in or one user can use the application at a time but, as a user of the application, you don’t ...

It’s time for hardware multi-factor authentication

Proper use of multi-factor authentication could stop most of the cyberattacks we see today, yet adoption remains low. Good security is usually at the expense of convenience, and multi-factor solutions that are easy to use are hard to implement. Fortunately, technology can be used to offset this ...

Seven traits of highly modernizable Java applications

Your developers write comments appropriately; you avoid deeply nested loops; and you make a point of detecting and removing duplicate code. Your team does these things, without hesitation, because everyone knows it makes your application easier to maintain. But how is your team making your ...
Vaadin and remote code injection in Log4j

Vaadin and remote code injection in Log4j

You should have heard about the log4j security issue by now. Vaadin or typical Vaadin applications are not affected by the recent log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046). But we felt that it is important to summarize and reflect what these vulnerabilities may mean for Vaadin ...

The best frontend frameworks to use with Spring Boot in 2024

Spring Boot is a preconfigured version of the Spring framework that makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade applications. Spring Boot is a backend framework that has become a major player in the enterprise Java ecosystem. It lets Java developers start building web applications ...