The third alpha release of Vaadin 7 landed today. This one is a huge release. Not only did we add large features such as high level navigation api, JavaScript based component authoring and JavaScript integration api, but we even added GWT. Navigation API In Vaadin 6, you had to invent implement ...

Greetings from the Google I/O "History and Future of GWT" session. I am happy to announce that our 5 year "engagement period" with GWT is turning into something more serious. Vaadin 7 will include a full copy of GWT maintained by the Vaadin team. This means that Vaadin 7 will directly support a ...

How did you like the black part of vaadin.com site? We did not like it too much either. The information was scattered around in many small pieces and it was hard to get good overall picture on what is the company behind Vaadin Framework and what we are selling. To make the site better, we ...

A new minor version of the Vaadin Framework 6 was just released. While the most of the new and exciting features are worked on in Vaadin 7, Vaadin 6.8 adds 45 fixes to the stable version of Vaadin. With Vaadin 7 final release targeted to be released in the end of September at JavaOne, Vaadin 6.8 ...

SuperDevMode is a new bleeding edge feature in GWT, enabling you to debug GWT Java code in the browser without the need for any plugins and enabling you to quickly redeploy changes you have done to your widget code. On my computer a full compilation of the default widget set from Vaadin with one ...

Jelastic is a Java host cloud platform. Early generation Java cloud computing platforms required developers to manage virtual machines or purpose-build applications to work in the cloud. Jelastic is different, it runs any Java app, scales vertically, doesn't keep your code locked in, has a free ...

When Apple opened their App Store for iOS almost four years ago, they set a new trend of installing applications in mobile devices. The trend has been such a success that it is now also flooding to the traditional desktop with Mac App Store and Windows Marketplace. Yet by opening their App Store to ...

[This article is for an old version of Vaadin TouchKit. Check out the documentation for the latest Vaadin TouchKit at vaadin.com/touchkit ] Matti Tahvonen, the author of this entry, is one of our developers, working on TouchKit. "What is an offline web application?" asks Mark Pillgrim on his ...

After 119 days and a bit late from the original schedule, Vaadin 7 alpha 2 is now released! As the name states, this is the second alpha. A total of four alpha releases are scheduled before the beta period and we will do our best to keep the timeline. Each alpha release introduces a set of changes ...