In the previous article of this series, we explored a demo application designed with a microservices architecture and implemented with Spring Boot and Vaadin Framework 8. The demo application is available on GitHub and you can follow the instructions there to run it by yourself. In this article, ...

What is wrong with Java Desktop technologies? To understand what’s wrong with Java Desktop apps, let's take a look at the new features of JavaFX, the most leading UI framework for desktop applications. It becomes obvious that it is trending towards the web approaches, borrowing more and more ...

This week’s answer is inspired by a direct question I found on YouTube: Using Vaadin Framework 8.2, I was able to quickly implement a simple application with a side menu, containing options that change the main content of the UI when they are clicked and keeping the back and forward buttons of the ...

The first beta release of Vaadin 8.3 is out. As we are now getting into the “release train mode,” this comes quite soon after the recent 8.2 version. Along with all the latest bug fixes, there is also a bunch of nice features that made it to this milestone. Easier styling of certain components: ...

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”, who constantly keep customers in their mind and thrive to give solutions to the Vaadin community? Together we ...

We are already full throttle in 2018, but still wanted to briefly look back how we made it through 2017. And as far as all the events, conferences, and contests, 2017 was a fantastic year for Vaadin. We have moved to the new website, pushed out three versions of Vaadin 8 and a sneak preview of the ...

I learned something new while investigating the problem described in this question on stackoverflow.com: It turns out, you can add click listeners not only to ButtonRenderers but to ImageRenderers as well. They both extend the ClickableRenderer class, as you can see if you inspect the class ...

There are over 150 000 developers building awesome business applications with Vaadin for making their end-users' lives easier – but what do people really build with Vaadin? We asked the same question for the second time on Twitter and you answered! We had a raffle on Twitter, where people could ...

Most servers these days, even when not applying a microservice architecture, host just one application. And most new applications connect to just a single database. Still a lot of time, both in development and deployment, is often spent configuring how your application connects to your relational ...