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Vaadin SwingBridge is a solution that allows you to run Swing apps in the web browser just by adding your app jars in the Vaadin skeleton app. I got a task to measure the memory consumption since we were getting many requests from customers related to that. So, I set out to build a test harness ...

Every few weeks, a new model or agentic coding tool claims it writes better code than the last one. Those numbers are useful signals about general code writing, but for a Java shop building or maintaining real Vaadin applications, the relevant questions are narrower: can an agent wire Vaadin's ...

We have new training videos, exercises, and certifications for Vaadin 25. What took us so long? I'm glad you asked. Why updating training content is hard Updating training materials to a new major Vaadin version has always been a big task. Ideally, when a new release ships, we'd be ready to train ...

We spent the last SwingBridge release on improving memory usage, so that more users fit on one server. I wanted a number for it, not just my own opinion about how we built it. SwingBridge runs your Swing application on a server and shows it in a browser, so a user opens a link instead of installing ...

My first job was to write a new module in an Oracle Forms 6 application. A couple of years later, the company wanted the entire application migrated to Java, and since I was a young developer who knew both Oracle Forms and Java, the migration landed on me. I did it by hand and it took a while. In ...

EcoTransIT World calculates freight transport emissions for around 340 companies worldwide, processing roughly 4.3 billion shipment calculations a year across road, rail, sea, air, and inland waterways. Behind EcoTransIT World is IVE mbH, a German engineering firm of around 50 people. The reason a ...

Agentic software development is trending, and it's easy to see why: you can generate working software in a matter of minutes just by typing a few phrases! Speculation is running wild. Are SaaS giants about to become history when anyone can allegedly vibe-code their own Slack or Jira? No silver ...

Spring AI is Spring's official application framework for AI engineering. It brings the ecosystem's core principles (portability, modularity, dependency injection) to building LLM-powered features in Java. Combined with a UI framework like Vaadin, it turns an LLM API key into a working product ...

With a team that has ranged from 10 to 15 developers over the years, qubIT manages a platform with more than 4,000 UI screens, thousands of domain entities, and a shared codebase used by Portugal's largest universities. Built with Vaadin under a Java-first approach, the team uses compile-time ...