In the previous article of this series, we developed two functional microservices: a REST web service, and a web UI for it. In this article, we’ll add fault tolerance capabilities, by making the web UI resilient to failures in the REST web service. Why do we need this? Microservices depend on other ...

Alex Russell first introduced Web Components at the Fronteers Conference in 2011. He sketched a Platonic ideal of componentized web elements, a new feature which is ubiquitous and reusable. 2 years after, at Google I/O 2013, Google announced the release of Polymer. The way Polymer works is believed ...

In the previous articles of this series, we focused on developing orchestration services to enable microservices. We implemented a Discovery Server to let applications consume services without knowing their exact location, and a Configuration Server to allow microservices to run in multiple ...

You may have noticed that we've been writing a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) lately. PWA are a way to deliver native like user experiences on mobile devices without the cost of developing and distributing separate apps for different mobile platforms. They also offer your users an easier way ...

A big part of my time I get busy creating Vaadin tutorials, and I always wish I can deploy them somewhere publicly for demo purposes. But that has not always been easy, since I need a backend server ready for Vaadin Framework. I also need to occasionally update the server, whenever I make changes ...

In the previous article of this series, we implemented a Discovery Server to allow microservices to consume other microservices without knowing their exact location. The code is available on GitHub, and you can find the instructions to run the demo application in the first article of this series. ...

Vaadin Directory has been the place to find extra 3rd party components and tools for Vaadin users for over 7 years already. Now, in addition to the 733 Vaadin and GWT components listed before, we’ve added a total of 467 3rd party web components in Vaadin Directory. Why? Compatible with Vaadin 8 and ...

It’s my pleasure to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.3.0 is now out and ready for general usage. As discussed in the previous beta blog entry, the most significant enhancements are in the integration libraries to Spring and CDI. Also, many components have received nice improvements. To take ...

Vaadin provides developer tools, components, and services for building modern web applications, but who are the people behind Vaadin? Who proudly carry the message “Fight For Simplicity”, constantly keeps customers in their mind and thrive to give solutions to the Vaadin community? Together we are ...