Getting started with Java EE and Spring

One of the most interesting findings in the latest Vaadin Community Survey was that Java EE is used slightly more than Spring Framework among developers. Although the difference between the Java EE and Spring Framework shares is small, if we combine both, we get that 73% of the developers using ...

State of Web Components in real life app development

The collaborative Vaadin, Polymer, and Skate web platform study is almost over and we have some great initial results! After opening one month ago we’ve received over 700 responses from every kind of developer. Architects, managers, hobbyists, students, all answered our fifteen minute survey about ...

Vaadin Spring 1.1 is out

I’m pleased to announce that a new version of Vaadin Spring is released! The version 1.1 brings a major enhancement for Navigator and View handling, which shaves away a lot of boilerplate code from non-trivial applications that have multiple views. Spring powered Navigator The big new feature in ...

Using Vaadin Elements with Vaadin Framework

Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. Many Vaadin Framework users have been wondering why we have started the pure client-side Vaadin Components project. As discussed last month, the ultimate plan is to start using these Web Components based client-side components in the client side of ...

New Vaadin Training: Learn about Progressive Web Apps with Polymer

We are proud to present a new training course “Building Progressive Web Apps with Polymer”. The course is intended for anybody wanting to learn more about Web Components, Google’s Polymer library and Progressive Web Applications (PWAs). You’ll also get to know Vaadin Elements, which are built with ...

Spring Boot - a perfect platform for a Vaadin UI

Vaadin Framework is a web app UI framework that requires just a Java virtual machine and a servlet container. In theory that is all you need to build your application, but for most real business apps, you are much better off when you base your app on some application framework. Spring Framework and ...

Community Spotlight - October 2016

It’s time for another Community Spotlight interview. This month with Jarek Toro, an enthusiastic programmer, Vaadin add-on author, and Software Developer working for Verne Software. Jarek learned Java and Vaadin in a record time earlier this year. Keep reading and find out how Vaadin helped him to ...

Vaadin Designer 1.1 released for IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse

Vaadin Designer is the most intuitive way to create beautiful web UIs. Great productivity is made out of two things: speed of building even the most complex layouts visually with drag-and-drop tools and having a clean separation of your UI design files and business logic. Vaadin Designer does all ...

Building components on top of Polymer

We at Vaadin have always been committed to creating great UX for businesses and helping developers build modern web apps. We’ve always strived to create better tools and components for all web developers. So in the past few years we’ve invested into Google Polymer as the library for building our ...