Since we wouldn’t want to miss out on the popular sport of looking back at the previous year, I will start this year by taking a look into the past. Although it feels like it happened a very long time ago, it turns out to be less than one year since Vaadin 7.0 was released. Roughly halfway through ...

While working mainly with Eclipse in Vaadin R&D, I have personally used NetBeans from time to time to get some precious oversight on what other IDEs can do. Most often that has happened after banging my head to a wall with Eclipse issues :-). From what I have learned, NetBeans excels at least ...

Five year maintenance guarantee Five years is a long time in a fast changing technology environment. We believe that you appreciate that the support is guaranteed for the foundation of your applications, which should work for years to come. Vaadin has one of the most rigorous maintenance guarantees ...

The Vaadin calendar has been filling up rapidly after New Year and there are lots of events close to you coming up. Firstly, there are tons of webinars in the queue, with the next one on Spring, with Josh Long from Pivotal and the one after that on Vaadin Charts together with Torstein Honsi from ...

NetBeans IDE 8 automatically suggests to use Java 8 lambda expressions Java 8 is to be released soon. The current schedule predicts release in the middle of March, but you should notice that the recent postponements have been due to the various webstart related security enhancements. For web ...

Once again we are heading to Jfokus 2014 which is one of the largest Java developer events in Europe with over 1500 attendees, over 50 conference presentations and world class speakers. Jfokus is held in Stockholm on 3rd-5th February 2014. On Monday February 3rd we are going for a cruise and ...

When we started planning for the GWT.create conference last May, it was a really scary jump into the deep end of the pool. There had not been any GWT conferences since 2007, so we did not know what to expect. Even so, we felt that GWT really needed an event where the community could meet and plan ...

In the end of 2013 we ran a survey on vaadin.com to learn more about how we all as the community are currently using Vaadin, and what do people love and hate about it. We got over 200 responses and here is what we know now. Professional Vaadin users We are a professional open-source community. When ...

When we were developing Vaadin applications, we were feeling excited about how the development of a user interface was easy. We could play with the UI and still think about it as object structures in Java. Then we started to think over how beneficial integrating Spring framework into Vaadin could ...