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 ...

Migrating from JSP and JSF to Vaadin Made Easy

The first step in migrating from JSF or JSP based solutions to a single-page web app with Vaadin is commonly to integrate some views of your existing app to a Vaadin based app. Integrating Vaadin to existing JSF and JSP-based (such as Struts, Stripes, or Turbine) applications just got easier. I ...

Date Picker and Upload Element 1.0 betas released

Choosing a date is a common requirement in business applications. We wanted to provide an effortless and intuitive way of scrolling through months and years to find the date you are looking for. As a result, we just released the vaadin-date-picker element with two scrolling areas – one for months ...

Free Vaadin Certification and Training webinar in two weeks

Are you a Vaadin Certified Developer? If your answer is no, now you’ll have the chance to get certified for free. Between April 25th and May 1st we’re hosting a free certification week again, combined with a webinar with content from the first commercial Vaadin Training. Not only will your CV look ...

Vaadin combo box reimagined as a Polymer element – 1.0 beta ready to be used in desktop and mobile applications

Business app workhorse If a data table/grid is the most prominent and defining component of a UI framework, the combo box might be the most commonly used of the more complex widgets in business applications. It is very helpful for the users in situations where they have a very long list of options ...

Comparison Tool for Web Frameworks

When encountering something new, such as a new web framework, we’d like to quickly put it into context in order to know what it is and what problem it’s trying to solve. This is how the human mind works – we compare new things to previous experiences to be able to quickly decide if it’s a thing for ...

CDN is here – a global network of widgetsets

Widgetsets – those pesky little creatures living inside your browsers are the pain point of any developer. You know they speed up your app for your clients but it’s a pain in the llama’s ass to compile a new one after adding a new add-on to your project. We felt your pain and are thus happy to ...