All over 100 of us boarded a slightly delayed cruiser from Turku, Finland, on its way to Stockholm, Sweden - the promised city of JFokus 2011. We were quickly ushered into a grand auditorium with standing Vaadin banners on display all over, with traditional Finnish joiku music as ambient music, ...

Magnolia CMS has set a high goal to be the very best administration interface for Web-based content management on the market. With such a high goal, choosing the best toolkit for building the user interface is important. And that's where Vaadin comes into picture: for Magnolia 5 the web user ...

For the last two months, I've had the pleasure to write the first Vaadin on-line course on BlackBeltFactory.com. I've taught it to a classroom of 11 students while writing it. An early question that indirectly came up from Joonas prior to writing this course is: "why on earth do you want to use ...

The next stable version of Vaadin Framework - code named "St. Petersburg" is released today at the first Russian Vaadin Meetup - in St. Petersburg. The focus of this release is quality and the release includes only few new features. Instead we have put a lot of effort in building numerous ...

Good news for everyone using SQL databses in their Vaadin applications. The Vaadin SQLContainer is end-of-beta and v 1.0 has been released today. The SQLContainer is an add-on for Vaadin, that implements the Container interface for standard SQL database servers. SQLContainer allows you to easily ...

HbnContainer has won the final add-on competition round in December. Congratulations for Matti Tahvonen! This is what he writes about the history of the add-on: "It's nice to get a gadget that I wouldn't normally dare to spend my few bucks on. Still, I'm bit sad that it was the HbnContainer that ...

Next February 35 developers from the Vaadin team will be heading to Jfokus conference in Stockholm by ship from Turku. This sounded like lot of fun and some of our fellow Finnish Java-developers started to ask if they might join us on the trip. Jfokus is the nearest good Java conference to Finland ...

Refresher has won the add-on competition for November leaving CustomField and HbnContainer add-ons the second and third places - again. This shows that the most interesting add-ons are the ones implementing a feature that is missing from the Vaadin Framework core. The author, Henrik Paul, has been ...

For a few months we have been hard at work reinventing our support model for Vaadin. The main driver behind this has been the wish to add more value to the support subscription, and to make the support model more scalable for both us and the users (you!). Here is what we are going to release early ...