Vaadin 7 is done, now what? One of the lessons learned from our Vaadin 7 mega-project was that we should be taking smaller steps in future. Furthermore, we should not tie uncertain features to product releases before they are properly researched and prototyped. So we are not going to announce what ...

Good news for all Java and open source enthusiasts! We have decided to open source the Vaadin Calendar add-on for everyone. Previously dual-licensed either under AGPL open source license or CVAL commercial license it is today available under more liberal Apache 2.0 license. The Vaadin Calendar will ...

Access to the underworld of JavaScript One big advantage of Vaadin is, that it lets you define your application front end from a very high level, and cares about the nitty gritty details for you. But sometimes the requirements for your application can’t be realized that way. This is when you can ...

Phew! Now it's done. Vaadin 7.0.0 has been released after 16 months of intensive development! The last weeks before the release have passed quite smoothly. The only considerable hiccup has been a change of behavior for some technically invalid layout configurations, that was introduced in RC1. We ...

On Monday February 4th we took a giant leap forward by releasing Vaadin 7 and stepped on board of M/S Baltic Princess on a cruise to celebrate it. Many Vaadin users from Baltic countries joined us on Vaadin Developer Meetup Cruise which was an official Vaadin Release 7 Party. We wanted to offer ...

I am happy to announce that the wait is over. After 65 added features and hundreds of tickets, the Vaadin version 7.0.0 is released today and is now available for download at vaadin.com/download No need to say that this is an important version release for us. This is the first major version release ...

As we all probably already know, one of the great new and interesting features of Vaadin 7 is the easy integration of any JavaScript component. No need to write wrappers between GWT and JavaScript anymore, just a simple connector and a state class and you have the freedom to use any kind of JS ...

We’re releasing our new Vaadin demo application, QuickTickets Dashboard, to the public today. It’s an application that I’ve been planning to create for some time and I hope that you find it a useful demonstration of what you can do with Vaadin. (Click to run the demo) Let me discuss a bit about the ...

What is Vaadin Charts? In a nutshell, Vaadin Charts is the de-facto charting component for Vaadin 7. Vaadin Charts is powered by the Highcharts JS library and it offers a Server-Side Vaadin API to utilize all the chart components that Highcharts provides. Vaadin Charts is not just a Highcharts ...