Inside the (Collaboration) Engine Room

Vaadin recently released Collaboration Engine, a new feature that allows you to easily create real-time multiuser apps. In this post, we take a look under the hood to see how it works. You can try a collaborative demo app here. While it's not immediately obvious when using the high-level ...
Collaboration Engine has a free tier now

Introducing a new free tier for Collaboration Engine

When we first announced the launch of Collaboration Engine last year, we received an overwhelming response from our community. Scores of developers were eager to try building real-time collaboration features into their Vaadin apps with just a few lines of code. Until today, Collaboration Engine was ...
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Collaboration Engine: How the demo app works

The Vaadin Collaboration Engine is a set of features that enables end users of your Vaadin application to collaborate with each other in real time within the application. It was built to help people work together when not sharing an office space. It’s included in all commercial Vaadin subscription ...

A sneak-peek at the future of Vaadin’s real-time collaboration features

Last Thursday saw the unveiling of our initial release of Vaadin’s new collaboration feature, which allows developers to rapidly build real-time form editing features directly into Vaadin applications, with only a few lines of code. A stable, beta version of the feature is currently available on ...

Meet Collaboration Engine: The simplest way to build collaborative web apps

(Part 2 of 4) Today, we launch the first iteration of Collaboration Engine: The world’s simplest solution for building powerful, real-time collaboration features into web applications. Read on to learn more about the problems we set out to solve, how Collaboration Engine works, and how you can ...
Collaborative web apps

An introduction to real-time collaboration in business critical applications

(Part 1 of 4) Many businesses are looking beyond geographic borders to procure the best workforce, customers, vendors and partners. In other words, organizations are becoming increasingly more distributed as they conduct business across the globe. This means that online workflows (the sequence of ...