Update on Vaadin/Liferay Integration

Liferay and Vaadin have always had good synergy (yep, I just used that word), often used together as a "best of breed" solution for portal and the frontend user experience. Vaadin 7 was released last year and introduced some changes in portal integration (including in Liferay), along with many new ...

Community Spotlight - May 2014

It is time to continue our series of community highlights. In case you missed the first episode: we’ll be briefly covering various Vaadin related topics from the interwebs that you might miss by following just our blog or newsletter. To be presented in the next episodes, do or write something cool ...

Neo4j + Spring Data - a natural fit for my data

Relational databases, RDBMSes, are the de-facto persistency solution for business apps. RDBMSes excel at large amounts of simple, not particularly complex data. Historically, each table is a structure of rows on disk. When you do a join, it’s an optimization on disk to help locate a pointer to ...

New Vaadin Trainings are here

Vaadin Trainings go online The 2-day Vaadin Fundamentals course is going to be arranged online for the first time on June 17th and 18th. It has the same content as the onsite Vaadin Fundamentals but it will take place online through Google Hangout. Vaadin Fundamentals will teach you the essentials ...

Vaadin 7.2.0 - "Mainz"

The next minor version of Vaadin 7 series is available for application developers around the world. Like we stated earlier, this is the second step in our iterative process of adding new features to Vaadin 7. So, let’s get started with these. Make more responsive applications This actually means ...

Two-factor authentication with Google Authenticator

Two-factor authentication (also “two-step verification”) is, in short, when authentication involves two stages - quite often some sort of one-time password (OTP) in addition to your regular password (video). Online banking has been using this for quite some time, and lately the method has also been ...

Optimizing hosting setup

The default setup for Vaadin web applications has been designed with the same principle as with the actual library: developer productivity. The war file generated by our archetypes or by Eclipse plugin is usable as such for most applications. But in case you wish to optimize your setup for speed ...

GWT.create Call for Presentations

With 650 attendees, GWT.create arranged for the first time last year was the largest GWT-related conference ever arranged. Next year we want to grow the conference even larger, reaching closer to 1000 developers. Propose a presentation We welcome you to share your thoughts on the future of web, GWT ...

Pro Tools price changes

We are going to change the pricing of Vaadin Pro Tools at the beginning of July, but in order to make it a soft drop, we wanted to give you a chance to subscribe with the lower price and continue using it for the foreseeable future. Starting July 1st, 2014 the new pricing will be: One month / ...