Announcing Vaadin Core Elements 1.0

Vaadin has been in the business of building UI components for the web since our start in 2000. Over the years, we’ve built up a big library of components and more importantly we’ve learned a lot about what developers and businesses need from their components. With the introduction of the Web ...

Filter based Spring Security in Vaadin applications

Spring Security’s web infrastructure is completely based on standard servlet filters. All requests go through a filter chain, where each filter does something with the request and decides whether to continue down the chain or stop and do something else. For example, a filter could check if the user ...

What have we resolved lately?

Vaadin Support resolves a humongous variety of different tasks and issues all the time. It is actually fascinating to see all the different Vaadin projects our customers are working on and what they are struggling with. However, every now and then some issues surface that kind of repeat themselves. ...

Dynamic HTML templates with FreeMarker and Vaadin

As you may already know, with Vaadin you don’t have to worry about HTML. However, this doesn’t mean that Vaadin would prevent you from using it. There might be cases in which you want to design a layout using plain HTML and add Vaadin components into it. Moreover, you might want to add ...

Let's talk about DDD

All software systems are hopefully designed to solve a real world problem. To be able to do this, the software needs an abstraction of the problem - a model - that it can work with. Coming up with this model is not always easy, especially if the real world problem is complex. Domain Driven Design ...

Accessing hardware from web applications

Web applications accessed with a browser are more powerful than ever, and in many cases they have already replaced desktop applications. For example, many of us have started to use GMail as the primary email client. However, there are still some areas where a browser-based solution does not work - ...

Community Spotlight - April 2016

For this month’s Community Spotlight, I interviewed Godfrey D. Beray. Godfrey D. Beray is a Senior Development Consultant at Cubeworks Technology Consulting & Solutions and IT Consultant for the F&C Group of Companies and Society Agri-Venture Enterprise in the Philippines. He's also a ...

We are Vaadin - Working at Vaadin

Vaadin is one of the Great Places to Work companies in Finland and working here gives you a unique opportunity to work with open source tools that affect hundreds of thousands of other people’s lives. Vaadin is growing at such a rapid pace that new opportunities for both professional and personal ...

What’s up in Vaadin R&D?

The core framework team, whose responsibility it is to develop Vaadin Framework, has been busy during the winter building a major update to the Vaadin Eclipse Plugin. But we have built many other new features during 2016 as well - most of them available for you to try today. We have also decided ...