Vaadin for Maven Users It is now easy for Maven users to enhance their web projects with Vaadin user interfaces. The latest 6.1 version of the Vaadin Java web library is now available also for Maven users, via the Maven central repository. Here is a small usage sample: mvn archetype:generate ...

Thanks to the Vaadin plugin it is extremely easy to start development on Eclipse. After installing Eclipse Java EE and Tomcat 6 (both should be a matter of unzipping) watch this video and you will be on the right track to web applications.

A few years ago there were discussions about modal monologue boxes in applications and how bad they are. Monolog boxes are the similar dialogs JavaScript's window.alert(message) produces; a modal dialog that user has to click on in order to go on with his/her workflow. This is really an inhumane ...

Proactum - a Helsinki based Open Source company - is arranging a serie of meet-ups for Open Source minded developers. Speakers include Michael 'Monty' Widenius, Mårten Mickos, Jyrki J Kasvi and Ilkka Lehtinen.The next event will be on Tue 25th of August, 2009. Vaadin team will be sponsoring the ...

For the majority of computer users the user interface is the software. They don't really care how much precious time we put into designing the database or tuning the algorithms, all they see is the interface and will judge our product or services solely on how pretty it is. Trust is measured in how ...

Below is the third installment of Phil's experiences with Vaadin, you can find the earlier two here and here. Also, let me know if you would like to participate with your own content (any content you think other Vaadin-users might be interested in is welcome). So it’s Sunday and in between making ...

Vaadin 6.0.1, the first maintenance release of Vaadin 6, has now been released and is available for immediate download at http://vaadin.com/download! Eclipse plugin users can easily upgrade by going into Project properties -> Vaadin -> Vaadin Version -> Download. The release contains major ...

Most programming enthusiasts can't have missed that Scala has lately been getting alot of positive and exciting buzz! Most notably Twitter rewrote important parts of their core service in Scala, with great success and the infamous fail-whale is slowly becoming a funny, distant, memory. The ...

Here is the second part of Phil's experiences with Vaadin, where he describes in detail how to get started with Vaadin. Take it away Phil: Hello World, I wonder how many times I have followed thru a 'Hello World' example, it's bound to be a lot. Oddly enough I don't remember an Assembler, PL1 or ...