The aim of this article is to give you the tools to make your Vaadin Charts look the way you want them to look. We Finns are not much for small talk so let’s get right to business. There are two ways of theming your charts. You can either: theme each chart individually; or you can create a generic ...

One month after releasing Vaadin Core Elements 1.0, we’re happy to announce the completion of Core Elements 1.1. This update brings performance and usability improvements to vaadin-grid, vaadin-combo-box and vaadin-date-picker. vaadin-grid 1.1 now dynamically updates in response to changes in the ...

A few weeks back Vaadin organized a Progressive Web App programming competition, giving the winners a chance to attend Google Progressive Web App Developer Summit in Amsterdam. In this month’s Community Spotlight, we want to introduce the winners of the competition and showcase the cool projects ...

In my previous blog post about Spring Security, I wrote about filter-based security and how to use that in your Vaadin applications. In this blog post, we are going to look at another way of utilizing Spring Security. In addition to filters, Spring Security has other ways of protecting your ...

We have some great news for all Angular 2 users out there! While working on providing a seamless Angular 2 integration to Vaadin Elements, we ended up building a universal Polymer to Angular 2 adapter that allows you to use any Polymer Element in your Angular 2 application. This means that in ...

Azure is one of the leading PaaS and IaaS providers, and, despite being a Microsoft service, it is an excellent choice to host Java web applications. I had a chance to host a webinar with Microsoft’s OSS folks about running Java web apps in Azure and during that, I also figured out that Azure is ...

It has been some time since the last update from the Vaadin Designer team, and I bet that some of you have been wondering what we have been up to - and I know many are curious about the IntelliJ IDEA support. You can rest assured we have been working (and playing) hard to bring you the best ...

Note: This post has been updated to use Vaadin 8. This guide walks you through the process of connecting to MySQL databases from Java web applications using JDBC and Spring Framework. The UI part will be built using Vaadin Framework that allows you to build modern single-page web apps with only ...

A couple of years ago, along with the release of Vaadin 7, we chose our Eclipse plugin to be based on a dependency management tool called IVY. Still most of us, even most of the Eclipse users, are not using IVY. This has naturally made the plugin irrelevant for most Vaadin Eclipse users, but today, ...