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If you're familiar with Vaadin, you know that add-ons significantly enhance the development experience. They offer a wealth of additional functionality, widgets, and presentation options for your Vaadin-based applications. Upgrading to a newer Vaadin version can sometimes lead to compatibility ...

By leveraging Vaadin's expertise and tools, NPR successfully migrated ContentDepot from Vaadin 8 to Vaadin 14, modernizing their application and benefiting from the latest features and improvements the Vaadin 14 framework offers. National Public Radio (NPR), a renowned nonprofit media organization, ...

Vaadin 8 was originally built and designed when Java 8 was the newest and the coolest. You can see this in many parts of the API. For example, we use lambdas to implement listeners that only have one method, and use Optionals and Streams here and there. Vaadin 8 also uses GWT 2.8.2, which allows ...

Using REST services has really struck though during the last couple of years. They often act as a "public API" for third-party solutions like mobile apps or as a "persistence layer" for client-side web apps (GWT, Angular etc.). Java is probably the most common platform for providing REST services, ...

Good news for Vaadin enthusiasts: A new book about Vaadin is available now! In Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8, Vaadin Advocate Alejandro Duarte explores how to create functional web apps, where data management is a key concern. Unlike many IT manuals, which only offer an introduction to ...

Have you already migrated to Vaadin 10? Are you ready to enjoy all the benefits of Vaadin Flow once the final version is released? In this post, I will show you how to experiment with Vaadin Flow, with your current Vaadin 7 or 8 application. This is not a migration reference, although there are ...

This is the final post in a series of tutorials for upgrading the Table component to Grid. So what’s next? From the first day when I started this series, we immediately got a lot of feedback about some features that don’t exist in Grid. Summarizing and going forward you will have the following ...

As you undoubtedly know, Oracle just announced the general availability of Java 9. It contains tons of exciting new features, and you might be itching to test drive it with your Vaadin application. The server side aspects of Vaadin Framework work flawlessly with Java 9 today. If your app doesn’t ...

This is a series of tutorials for upgrading the Table component to Grid. It will be performed by migrating to Framework 7 style of Grid, then migrating to Framework 8. As a reference, Gridv7 is the Grid component from Framework 7, while Grid is the latest Grid component in Framework 8. Naturally, ...