The Snow Reindeer release: What’s new in Vaadin 24.6

Take your Java Full-Stack development to the next level with Vaadin 24.6.

As announced in Joonas Lehtinen’s product keynote at Vaadin Create, with Vaadin 24.6, we’ve taken a step back from introducing new features to focus on something equally important: refining the foundation. This “Snow Reindeer” release is dedicated to enhancing stability, boosting performance, and improving the overall experience for developers and users alike.

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Building a local file manager with Vaadin Flow

Handling file uploads and managing stored files is a common requirement in web applications. However, creating a robust and user-friendly interface can be challenging. This post demonstrates how to build a file management application using Vaadin Flow, showcasing how Vaadin's components, data ...
Why full-stack development is the future of web apps

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Let's set the stage with a cliché: software development is constantly evolving towards ever higher levels of abstraction. We have object-oriented and functional programming built on top of imperative programming on top of assembler on top of machine code. Each new paradigm starts with some rough ...
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Learn how to build a Vaadin & Gemini AI chatbot.

Building a Vaadin & Gemini AI chatbot: Context management and UI customization

Welcome to part two of our series on building an AI-powered chatbot using Vaadin and Google's Gemini AI 1.5 model. In this post, we’ll enhance the basic Gemini AI chatbot from part one with advanced features like context management, a customized UI with Vaadin components, and an improved user ...
Introduction to Java Swing and why modernize.

The status of Java Swing - And why consider modernization

Java Swing has been supporting enterprise applications for decades. However, Swing is now in maintenance mode and no longer reflects the state of the art in application development. But does that mean that Java Swing is deprecated, and what are the alternatives for organizations that use Swing? ...
Build an advanced chat app in Java with OpenAI chatbot integration. Learn how to use OpenAI's Chat API for intelligent, responsive bots.

Building an OpenAI-powered chatbot in Java

Updated in August 2024. Want to build a better version of ChatGPT? Learn how to integrate OpenAI's Chat Completions API to add an intelligent chatbot to your Vaadin Flow chat application. Create a new chat app with OpenAI chatbot integration Using the service at start.vaadin.com, create a new ...
Vaadin 24.4 opens the door to the land of React

Vaadin 24.4 opens the door to the land of React

One prominent theme in Vaadin 24.4 is integration with React in various forms. React has grown in popularity to the point where it's currently the most popular UI rendering library for web applications. This means that there's excellent availability of third-party components, learning resources, ...
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Building a Vaadin & Gemini AI Chatbot

This is the first part of our in-depth series on building a Vaadin & Gemini AI chatbot. In part two, we’ll add context management and UI customizations to enhance the chatbot. This blog post will detail how to build a web application that allows the user to input text prompts and receive a text ...
Modernizing legacy Java Swing apps to cut costs, enhance security, and drive innovation

Java Swing: Rising tech debt costs signal it's time to modernize

Tech debt from legacy frameworks like Java Swing poses significant issues with major consequences for societies, governments, and companies of all sizes. According to 2022 CISQ research, the technical debt that the US economy has developed would require $1.52 trillion to fix. As time goes on, this ...