Tag: Web-apps
Kotlin is a programming language that has gained much popularity over the last few years. Its concise and expressive syntax feels liberating compared to the verbosity of Java. Vaadin supports the Kotlin programming language through the Karibu-DSL library, which contains various extensions to use Vaadin and Kotlin together.
Despite its simplicity, Kotlin is a fully type-safe language and helps you avoid many common programming errors in Java, such as null-pointer exceptions. Kotlin runs on the JVM and is fully interoperable with existing Java code, which means you can use it both in new and existing projects.
The State of Java
Java is one of the most popular programming languages, especially for enterprise applications. This post takes a brief look at its long history and where it is today. 25 years of Java The Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.0 was designed by a team lead by James Gosling and released at Sun Microsystems in ...
PWABuilder and Vaadin
Tech giants Microsoft and Google are pushing progressive web applications (PWAs) as the standard for their app stores. They have independently, and through joint effort, found ways to turn existing web apps into PWAs, and to wrap them to be supported on different platforms. These technologies have ...
An introduction to real-time collaboration in business critical applications
(Part 1 of 4) Many businesses are looking beyond geographic borders to procure the best workforce, customers, vendors and partners. In other words, organizations are becoming increasingly more distributed as they conduct business across the globe. This means that online workflows (the sequence of ...
Vaadin 12 Brings New Components and Improved Performance
Vaadin 12 adds a bunch of new components, a couple of significant performance improvements, a Material Design theme option and many other small improvements and bug fixes. Vaadin 12 is an incremental release and a recommended update as we are making progress towards the next LTS version, to be ...