Mobile web has brought up a trend that is called responsive web design (RWD). This commonly refers to a technique where the same HTML file is displayed in a bit of a varying manner, based on the screen size of the end user. This is achieved by some carefully crafted DOM structure and modern CSS ...

Greetings from the Liferay Symposium. The event was great and we have had many good discussions with new and old Vaadin fans over here. And this is no wonder, like you learned earlier Vaadin-based applications took double-win the Liferay Marketplace. Announcing the new Vaadin Liferay refcard The ...

Incoming! We’ve got some cool stuff on the way: Web Components. This is so burning hot and awesome but it also generates a lot of hype and but-whats-in-it-for-me thoughts. I’m a Java guy - how can I use all this? If you are feeling the same, just read along. Let’s clear this out for Java guys like ...

Vaadin and Liferay have always been close to each other – the communities are closely aligned and many Liferay users leverage Vaadin’s power when building interactive portlets. Liferay Marketplace Winner & Liferay Symposium As you’ve seen, Vaadin.com itself also uses Liferay and being an open ...

Lots of things have happened for Vaadin users after the summer holidays. There have been many official releases, mostly built around Vaadin 7.3 and the new Valo theme engine. We even titled September as the “Month of Valo” with, among others, JAXenter.de covering the release and More Vaadin writing ...

I recently had a privilege to put my head together with Arun Gupta from RedHat about web application scalability. We couldn’t come up with any silver bullets for this sometimes scary topic - there isn’t one. There are lots of different kinds of applications and they all have their optimal setups ...

One of the most anticipated events of the year for Java developers is soon here - JavaOne 2014. JavaOne will be held in San Francisco, CA, on September 28th to October 2nd with technical sessions, keynote presentations, exhibits, and of course the expo floor with, among others, the Vaadin team at ...

Following the recent release of Vaadin 7.3, we are proud to announce Vaadin TouchKit 4. Mobile development basically has two main strategies: native and web. There are also hybrid approaches, which mix both strategies. Vaadin TouchKit 4 gets you on the fast track of the mobile web strategy. Vaadin ...

The latest addition to the Who is Using Vaadin success stories is FLOWFACT – a German company catering the real-estate sector. The work they had put into their Vaadin-based application supporting mobile-first got us interested so we sat down with Andreas Runschke, Product Manager from FLOWFACT AG, ...