In the series of new features in 7.1.0, last week we looked into how the push functionality works, and this time we’re taking a bit more shallow and visual approach. I’ll walk us through the completely new and redesigned debug window. Aside from the fact that it’s actually easy on the eyes ...

Asynchronous updates of the UI have always been very high on the wishlists of many Vaadin developers. Even I stumbled upon the need for asynchronous updates during my junior years, without even realizing it. I thought Vaadin was broken somehow. I mean, if my button’s click listener can change the ...

We have a long awaited announcement to make: Vaadin 7 developer certification is finally live at vaadin.com. Starting from today, you can validate your Vaadin 7 skills by taking an online exam through the Vaadin Pro Account. Vaadin certification helps you communicate the skills and expertise in ...

While we're still working at full steam, there has not been so much visible progress to highlight as we have mostly been fixing important but not spectacular bugs. We did release Vaadin 7.1 beta 1, but that was already covered in my previous update as well as in a separate blog post. We released ...

In Finland, we default to “no feedback is good feedback” – You usually don’t get positive feedback, since everyone assumes everything works great, that perfection is status quo. When we had a questionnaire about Directory, imagine my surprise when many of you actually took the time to take the ...

At the end of April, we were happy to hear that a third book on Vaadin has been finalized and published (not counting Book of Vaadin, of course). The authors Jaroslav Holaň and Ondřej Kvasnovský have done an awesome job with the Vaadin 7 Cookbook. “Cookbook” is indeed the perfect word to describe ...

What a nice way to start a new week. The Vaadin build process was successfully completed on Friday and we have now a new minor (beta) release: Vaadin 7.1 Beta1 is available in Maven Central and on the download page. Those of you who have been following Vaadin development lately already know that ...

We’re releasing a preview version of an add-on, simply called Vaadin Responsive, for making responsive design possible in Vaadin applications. With this early version, we hope to gather feedback about responsive design in general, what wishes and needs you have, and to improve the add-on from ...

The community has always been important to us, and continues to be so. We do our best to provide interesting technologies, articles and other insights for you. Apparently we’ve done some things right, since today marks the day when we got our 50 000th registered user on vaadin.com. Funnily enough, ...