Improve your Vaadin application with fancy animations
Meik KaufmannVaadin is a feature rich framework to develop applications with Java. It provides a large set of components for all kinds of business requirements and a convenient programming model to…
Check your Vaadin MVP architecture with Unit tests
All those architectures out there start as a simple consistent idea… and end in a mess. After too many change requests and refactoring tasks to improve your project or correct…
Vaadin 10: Using theme style classes for your components
The first release candidate for Vaadin 10 has been unleashed and I have just started to migrate some of my Vaadin 7/8 projects to version 10. As I prefer a server…
Vaadin 10: Templating your views with FlexLayout
Vaadin 10 is an almost complete rewrite of the successfull Vaadin framework and offers many new interesting and usefull features. One interesting feature is the router, that will superseed the…
Perfect multi language support for your Vaadin application (I18N)
Creating a multi lingual web application is a common task in modern web development. Most (old-school) java web frameworks offer out-of-the-box solutions for this task, but for single-page-application frameworks like…
Vert.x and Angular in a self-contained application
While I am still working with standard JEE architectures, I wanted to try out a Javascript frontend connecting to a Java backend in a self-contained application (SCA) for a long…
Get requests with a request body: Spring RestTemplate vs Apache HttpClient
During the last couple of days, I had the task to call some rest endpoints for a backend application. So far, so good, so easy... I thought. However, something looked…
An update to Vaadin, CDI and readable URIs
With version 8.3 of the Vaadin UI framework along with the official CDI addon for Vaadin, come a number of changes for CDI usage. Some enhancements were made for the…
(really really) Separating business logic from UI Code with Drools and Vaadin
Separating the business logic from application code has been a customer's dream and one of the most important architecture goals for many IT development projects. However countless "if - else"…
Material Vaadin
The Vaadin 8 framework uses the excellent Valo theme, which can be used out-of-the-box or as the base for a custom theme. The (old school) themes for Vaadin 7 (reindeer,…