In this second post on mobile web application development and Vaadin TouchKit, I’ll be talking about the future of TouchKit. With TouchKit 1.0 released, development focus will be switched to TouchKit 2.0. The biggest new feature in the following major release of TouchKit is support for building ...

A pleasant guest stopped at Vaadin office yesterday as Tommi Laukkanen - the author of LazyQueryContainer visited us. He took the trip here just to see what is it like in our offices - and maybe also to pick up the iPad he won in Vaadin Add-on Compo in August. Congratulations! The ...

Today we rolled out a new version of the Vaadin Directory. This update is mostly about fulfilling a common feature request we have heard from the community, downloading add-ons via Maven repository. We have setup our own Maven repository for Vaadin Add-ons and already deployed existing add-ons ...

One of my first assignments as a fresh employee of IT Mill was to investigate how well Vaadin integrates with the new GlassFish 3 application server. The last time I had used the "official JEE" was back in the 1.4 days, resulting in me becoming somewhat of a Spring fanatic. However, I had read that ...

This is the first post in a series of three posts on Vaadin TouchKit and mobile web application development. In this first post, I’ll give a bit of background about how I got involved with developing Vaadin TouchKit and discuss some thoughts I’ve had during the development phase. The following ...

As mentioned earlier the AppFoundation add-on has been one of the community favorites for some time now. So, it hardly comes as a surprise that until the end of July, Kim Leppänen managed to collect 684 points winning the iPad of the month for himself. Congratulations! Foundation for your ...

Already from the beginning of the month it was clear that this was battle between two add-ons. Both GWT Graphics and AppFoundation have a big fan base and it was not until the last day the winner was clear. On the final day GWT Graphics managed to collect total 550 points pushing ahead and taking ...

Lately we have been researching Server-side RIA scalability together with Codento and Åbo Akademi University in the context of a larger Cloud research program. The research is an ongoing process, but we are starting to get first early results from it. As a brief summary: Vaadin based user interface ...

The second month of Vaadin Add-on competition was a surprising one. First it seemed that the same names occupied the top 5 list as a month before, but after a few web development blogs noticed the tool the winner of May was clear: Marc Englund with Chrometric. Chrometric is a tool for Vaadin ...