HbnContainer has won the final add-on competition round in December. Congratulations for Matti Tahvonen! This is what he writes about the history of the add-on: "It's nice to get a gadget that I wouldn't normally dare to spend my few bucks on. Still, I'm bit sad that it was the HbnContainer that ...

Next February 35 developers from the Vaadin team will be heading to Jfokus conference in Stockholm by ship from Turku. This sounded like lot of fun and some of our fellow Finnish Java-developers started to ask if they might join us on the trip. Jfokus is the nearest good Java conference to Finland ...

Refresher has won the add-on competition for November leaving CustomField and HbnContainer add-ons the second and third places - again. This shows that the most interesting add-ons are the ones implementing a feature that is missing from the Vaadin Framework core. The author, Henrik Paul, has been ...

For a few months we have been hard at work reinventing our support model for Vaadin. The main driver behind this has been the wish to add more value to the support subscription, and to make the support model more scalable for both us and the users (you!). Here is what we are going to release early ...

Last week was all Devoxx for us. For full conference experience, we had a booth and a talk for Vaadin there. It was extremely nice to be there and see all the people coming to our booth to learn more about Vaadin. Also there was a good number of Vaadin users and projects built with Vaadin that were ...

The ICEPush add-on has won the add-on competition for October leaving HbnContainer and CustomField to the second and third places. Here's what the add-on author, Artur Signell, has to say about his successful add-on. "One day in May there was a forum post about ICEfaces making a generic javascript ...

I had the privilege to attend the Liferay Symposium in Frankfurt for the second time now. The symposium was very nicely organized, I guess mostly thanks to Laila Brown from Liferay for putting all the bits and pieces together for a very enjoyable conference. From my point of view it was also ...

[ Posted on behalf of Phil B ] Some time back, after my first introduction to Vaadin, I was on a small quest to understand how the integration with GWT actually worked. I managed to grab some of Sami’s community Friday time, he offered and I naturally accepted and we went thru the basics. In ...

After a year since the Vaadin launch and the JavaOne is here again. We did not know what to expect, but seems that the reception in US exceeded all our expectations - Vaadin is very widely used to create enterprise applications of all kind. Actually, we are very excited! There are so many companies ...