I recently had the opportunity to work on WAI-ARIA additions to the Vaadin core framework. WAI-ARIA is short for Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite. Through this, it is possible to make web application like the one's created with Vaadin accessible for ...

If you are well informed about your own organization and your surroundings, it’s easier to serve customers and make good decisions. This was known already to Sun Tzu and is also one cornerstone of the ISO 9001 standard. ISO 9001 is a quality standard focusing on the very basics of the organization, ...

I am happy to announce that the new Vaadin 7 edition of the book just came out of print. The book is thicker than ever, perfect for bashing others over technical Vaadin details, and the color of the cover is this time...drumroll...red. We will again be giving away copies for free at events which we ...

Frameworks are pretty hard to demo - they are just a pile of API that does not look much. It would take quite a while too long to see the beauty of the framework just by looking at the API. In case of UI frameworks, there is also a bunch of UI components, but even they are fairly hard to demo ...

NOTE: This blog post is outdated and Community Cloud is no longer available. You can find updated information on how to deploy Vaadin applications here. We're excited to finally reveal something we've had under the covers for a while now. We're confident that this will be something that you, the ...

It has mostly been business as usual since the last update - lots of small things worth mentioning but nothing as spectacular as the release of Vaadin 7.0.0 last month. Maybe the biggest of the small things is the first maintenance release for Vaadin 7, including a whopping 51 fixes and small ...

Blog post by Matti Tahvonen: Like most new chart libraries of our era, Vaadin Charts was born for the web. Behind the scenes, we rely on the industry leading Highcharts JS library, which renders charts in the browser using the standard SVG vector format. Even though SVG had a rocky start, modern ...

The ability to extend components is one of the great new features of Vaadin 7. By using extensions you don't have to reinvent the wheel—you can adjust the outlook or the behavior of the existing components instead of creating new ones, thus minimizing the need for copy-paste code. I have been ...

Great news for all Pro Account users! Vaadin Charts has reached the 1.0 and is now available for download from the Directory. Pie, bar, scatter, stacked, timeline, ... Vaadin Charts has all the features you need to build cool reporting user interfaces to your application. You have seen this in the ...