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 ...

The ICEPush add-on has won the add-on competition for October leaving HbnContainer and CustomField to the second and third places. Here's what the add-on author, Artur Signell, has to say about his successful add-on. "One day in May there was a forum post about ICEfaces making a generic javascript ...

I had the privilege to attend the Liferay Symposium in Frankfurt for the second time now. The symposium was very nicely organized, I guess mostly thanks to Laila Brown from Liferay for putting all the bits and pieces together for a very enjoyable conference. From my point of view it was also ...

[ Posted on behalf of Phil B ] Some time back, after my first introduction to Vaadin, I was on a small quest to understand how the integration with GWT actually worked. I managed to grab some of Sami’s community Friday time, he offered and I naturally accepted and we went thru the basics. In ...

After a year since the Vaadin launch and the JavaOne is here again. We did not know what to expect, but seems that the reception in US exceeded all our expectations - Vaadin is very widely used to create enterprise applications of all kind. Actually, we are very excited! There are so many companies ...

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 ...