Community Spotlight - February 2017

For this month’s community spotlight, I interviewed Normand Hénault. Normand is the CEO of a company developing an interesting project called Nuuzee, a service that allows users to geographically explore events around them. The web application is available in 93 languages with the translations ...

New Vaadin Online Trainings are here

We are proud to present over 30 new Vaadin Online Training Courses. Your feedback has encouraged us to change and restructure our online training offering. Starting immediately, you’ll be able to sign up for the new courses. Over 30 new topics We have created over 30 new courses with more precise ...

Vaadin Framework 8 is out!

The long wait is over and I’m privileged to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.0.0 is released today! Version 7 was released over four years ago. Even though there have been 7 minor releases since the initial release, that have added countless of new major features, major releases are always more ...

Want to learn Vaadin? Check out our university course!

One of the best things about open source communities is the sharing of knowledge. And what better way to share it than by organising a course at the local university? Last fall we collaborated with Turku Centre for Computer Science and the result was a full course called “Developing Modern Web Apps ...

Vaadin Framework 6 is becoming end-of-life, now what?

Vaadin Framework 7 was released in 2013, but there are still a whole lot of Vaadin 6 applications, doing their job, each and every day. When Vaadin 8 comes out as a stable release, which is hopefully pretty soon, Vaadin 6 series won’t anymore be covered by our free support, 8 years after its ...

Learn ES6 Today with Vaadin Elements - Part 2: The Fetch API

In this segment of our guide to ES6, you’ll learn how to use the Fetch API to simplify your HTTP requests. We will be referencing the example we wrote in the previous guide. You can read the first part of this blog series here: ...

Vaadin 8 on tour

Vaadin Framework’s 8th release is almost here. And this really is a tentpole release. Whether you are already using an earlier version of Vaadin Framework, or just planning to use it, we are organizing an excellent way for you to see and hear what the new version really means for you - in person. ...

Use Item Templates with to Customize the Item List

The Vaadin Elements team has just released a new update for that enables custom item templates for combo box items. With custom templates, your combo box can consume the items array to display more complex HTML, such as including an index, adding an image, displaying multiple fields from the item ...

Enabling HTTPS in your Java server using a free certificate

Using HTTPS connections in web application client-server communication has grown to be more and more common nowadays. In fact, for some types of applications, it’s become a requirement. For example, if you want to use Geolocation API in a web app running in Chrome, you need to have HTTPS enabled. ...