As discussed earlier, the core of Vaadin 8 is already compatible with Java 9. The issue burdening developers, however, has been the incompatibility of GWT when compiling a new widgetset, or developing new components. For many Vaadin developers, this has been a showstopper, as setting up a different ...

Website speed and responsiveness are two of the primary quality requirements in Web projects, as they have direct impact on revenue, both positive and negative. Although Vaadin is a great open-source web framework for developing rich internet applications, it is no secret that testing the ...

Revised November 2018 - few changes to our plans and product names A year ago I wrote here about our plans how we help current Vaadin Framework 8 users to migrate to Vaadin 10 platform. Since Developer Preview was released we talked to Vaadin customers and got the message that migration path would ...

The web has evolved immensely in the last couple years and with it, so have the technologies. In this article we explore going Native Apps v Web Apps. I visit conferences and meetups, speak with incredibly smart people, and have time to investigate new and exciting technologies to see how they fit ...

Vaadin 10 is a modern web application development platform. It’s core is the comprehensive set of business oriented UI components called Vaadin Elements. How we got here Vaadin Elements was originally targeting to add a few important, yet missing, UI components to Google’s Paper Elements set of Web ...

What happened during 2017? Vaadin Framework 8.0 was released on February 2017. It brought more than 21 Improvements to Vaadin Framework. One of the major features was full Java 8 support. Java 8 allowed us to dramatically improve the Data API. We released Vaadin Framework 8.1 in July. It took a bit ...

As you undoubtedly know, Oracle just announced the general availability of Java 9. It contains tons of exciting new features, and you might be itching to test drive it with your Vaadin application. The server side aspects of Vaadin Framework work flawlessly with Java 9 today. If your app doesn’t ...

Just a few months ago we released an app starter for Vaadin and Spring, and we got huge loads of positive feedback! But there was one thing many of you requested; an app starter for Java EE. And we listened. Today, we’re happy to announce the release of Bakery App Starter for Vaadin Framework 8 and ...

Vaadin was founded to make it easy for developers to build great web apps. We have been on that path for the past 17 years and today our mission keeps looking as important as ever. To best communicate what Vaadin stands for we have from time to time refined our brand: how we hope people will see ...