One of the main goals for us at Vaadin is to make the world more connected, through the use of the web and by making it as easy as possible for you to create applications that millions of people can use, without you worrying about browser differences or which mobile, tablet or desktop platform your ...

When we first arranged the GWT.create conference last December, we were blown away by the level of both speakers and attendees in the conference. How could we top that? We did not, you did: the word got around and you sent us even more amazing presentation proposals. With these ingredients it was ...

Here at Vaadin, we take software quality seriously. At the core of delivering quality software is learning from past mistakes and continuously improving the way we work. During the past few months, we have introduced some changes to the way we handle bugs. The two biggest improvements visible to ...

After the rainy start, it has been a beautiful summer here in Finland. We have been enjoying our holidays and sailing a lot in the beautiful Finnish archipelago. But like all nerds, we wanted to collect data too. And for this purpose we created a small tracker application for our boats. This shows ...

In June we asked you about how Vaadin applications go to production. What kind of apps do you use Vaadin for, what are the popular servers, and how regression testing is managed. A special thank you to everyone who took the time and answered. Here is what you said. Business. And more business. Most ...

It has been announced that TIBCO has dropped the commercial support of General Interface (GI). Instead, it was advised to use some other well supported and maintained RIA framework. Well, Vaadin is a RIA framework, maintained and well supported. Let’s see how it compares to GI. Architectural ...

A couple of weeks ago we had a webinar with a nice overview of a Vaadin TouchKit application built on top of a well established Java EE architecture. Some viewers even called it a "TouchKit essentials for Java EE gurus", but we are pretty happy about the content we covered there. You should ...

Web Components is a major effort to solve an issue among JavaScript hackers that has been working well in the Java world for ages: modularization. Using four emerging standards, Custom Elements, Html Imports, Templates and Shadow DOM, one can finally package UI components in such a way that they ...

In this article series we have mostly covered topics closely related to Vaadin. But we would also love to give more credit about external contributions to the core Vaadin itself. During the past month, Fabian Lange has been really active, almost like working in our R&D team, and also Norman ...