Did you hear the big news that Vaadin 7.4 will include a declarative design language? Did you see the new Vaadin Designer in Vaadin Labs? The next question is how these should be used? Below I propose a set of naming and use conventions - “best practices” if you will. Goals The declarative ...

When introducing Vaadin to new people, one of the most frequently asked questions has been “do you also have a visual designer for Vaadin”? While the answer has been “yes” for a long time, the old designer has not been evolving with the framework. This changes today. Vaadin Designer - the next ...

"DevOps (a portmanteau of "development" and "operations") is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and Information Technology professionals. DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software development and IT ...

The year 2014 ended with a remarkable milestone for Vaadin: There are now 500 publicly available extensions and helpers available for Vaadin users via Vaadin Directory. Although there are some “official” Vaadin Ltd backed artifacts available as well, this is mostly a community effort. Thank You! ...

The year 2014 has been a great year for Vaadin, just have a look at all the things that have happened in only one year. We’ve had two feature releases of Vaadin Framework during the year. Vaadin Framework 7.2 and Vaadin Framework 7.3 plus a very recent beta of Vaadin 7.4. But let’s start by having ...

Vaadin Grid has been in progress for a very long time - much longer than anyone anticipated when we decided to start working on a replacement for our venerable Table component. The development team has been hard at work with adding features and resolving issues for over a year already. The last few ...

For all the years Vaadin has existed, the only supported way of building UIs has been through the use of a Java API. Java is a very powerful and flexible way to construct the component hierarchy but sometimes, it can become very verbose and tedious to write. Reading other peoples’ Java layout code ...

We are proud to announce the brand new version 2.0 of Vaadin Charts. Along with lots of smaller fixes and updates in this release, there are now even more visualizations to choose from! More chart types, more dimensions Even if the data does not get better with new charts, there are ways to make ...

Are you starting a new Vaadin application with Maven? If so, we have good news for you. To help you get started “on the right foot”, we are rolling out a few new Maven archetypes in the near future. The first one on the list, the vaadin-archetype-application-example aka the Book Inventory ...