Vaadin Prime Service Description

Expert Chat

Expert Chat allows you to get advice regarding any issues related to Vaadin. There is no limit on the number of questions you can ask using this service. Expert Chat is easily accessible through the blue chat icon on the bottom right-hand corner of your browser.

Note: License checking is done online. If you are not logged into vaadin.com, you will not be able to access Expert Chat. Please check out our FAQ page for how to assign Vaadin Prime subscription seats for team members.  

Expert Chat can be used for asking advice and simple questions, for example, in the following areas:

• Problem-solving
• Best practices
• Architectural advice
• API help
• Providing simple snippets of code 

Not included in the service are:

• Implementation of software
• UX design
• Hands-on sessions through screen sharing or similar applications
• Training services

Service hours for Expert Chat are between 7 am and 8 pm UTC from Monday to Friday, except for:

• the 1st of Jan and 6th of Jan
• Good Friday and Easter Monday
• the 1st of May and Ascension Day
• Midsummer Eve, the 24th of June 
• the 6th, 24-26th and 31st of Dec
  

UTC+1 Summer Time is used between the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October.

General guidelines:

• In order to maintain the service level we kindly ask you to provide as much information as possible in your initial contact. 
• To reproduce the issue you are facing, the team will ask for examples such as code snippets, stack traces, sample projects, etc. If necessary, with the information you provide, the expert can also create a simple project and share it with you for further troubleshooting.
• For topics that are not directly Vaadin-related (such as Spring security, third-party add-ons and libraries, etc.), we would kindly ask you to create a support request with Development on Demand hours or a service project. Please contact the Expert Chat team for further guidance.

Expert on Demand

Our Expert on Demand service lets you quickly tap Vaadin technical experts and designers for shorter projects, ranging from a couple of hours to a few weeks. Let us help you with design reviews, component development, framework enhancements, migrations, integration, performance tuning, training, and more. 

Contact us to craft an Expert on Demand project for your specific needs, including: 

Warranty includes prioritizing one bug ticket at a time per one Vaadin Prime subscription. Prioritized tickets are placed in front of the queue and will be fixed on a best-effort basis and released in the next possible version release. You can use an existing GitHub ticket number, or if such a ticket doesn’t exist yet, describe the issue, and our experts will create the ticket for you. 

File a ticket through the Jira ticketing portal at support.vaadin.com. 

Warranty includes Vaadin's officially supported products:  

• Officially supported Vaadin Framework versions
• Officially supported components
• Designer, TestBench, Collaboration Engine
• For Vaadin 8, also
  • Touchkit
  • Board
  • Spreadsheet

General guidelines:

• The final decision on whether an issue is a bug or not is made by Vaadin.
• Missing features are not eligible for Warranty.
• A feature that works as intended is not eligible for Warranty.
• Security issues are fixed by Vaadin and do not require the use of Warranty. Please report any security issues by either contacting Expert Chat or security@vaadin.com.

Extended Maintenance 

Please find the Vaadin 7 Extended Maintenance fact sheet here.

Please find the Vaadin 8 Extended Maintenance fact sheet here.

Vaadin 7 and 8 are no longer supported as open source projects. We are still maintaining them, but new releases are only available for customers with Vaadin 7 or 8 Extended Support (an extra option is available for Prime and Enterprise). We recommend updating to the newest version; it is backward compatible and ensures your application is secure and up to date. New versions are distributed under the VCL-1 license.

You can use Warranty to prioritize bugs also in Vaadin 7 and 8.

There is no set schedule for releases. There will be a release whenever we have something new to release, such as a Warranty fix or a security fix.

Please contact the Expert Chat team if you need a feature implemented in your Vaadin 7 and 8 application. As with every feature request, we reserve the right to review it if it would require too big changes to the framework.

Security issues are fixed by Vaadin. Please report any security issues by either contacting Expert Chat or security@vaadin.com.

Our Expert Chat team is also happy to help with any questions about setting up the environment.

Multiplatform Runtime is part of Extended Maintenance. It allows you to migrate your Vaadin 7 or Vaadin 8 application to new Vaadin platform versions, view by view, in a single code base.

Please see here for supported technologies. Official documentation can be found here; the official training video will get you started. Please also check known limitations. 

Enterprise Support

Vaadin Prime includes 5 years of support for major releases. 

Collaboration Kit

Build collaborative features directly into Vaadin Flow applications. Vaadin Prime includes unlimited users.