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 Vaadin, you need to come up with some fresh ideas for localization. The business requirements for a Vaadin i18n application I would like to collect…
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 CDI navigator and it is now possible to have nice readable and bookmarkable Urls in your vaadin application. I summed up the latest changes for…
The model-view-presenter (aka MVP) architecture pattern is a good choice for Vaadin applications. It clearly separates the business logic from the UI code and improves testability. Well… I heard statements like that many times before without proper explanations or examples what makes a pattern so useful that we cannot start a new project without using…
The MVP (model-view-presenter) is a solid architecture pattern for Vaadin projects of all sizes. However there are many ways to achieve it. I would like to have a MVP architecture in my Vaadin projects and use the cool features of the Vaadin framework and its eco-system like a WYSIWYG editor for UI layout or the…
Single page web applications have become more and more popular as they support responsiveness in an elegant way and create great user experiences with fast rendering times. Vaadin is a leading Java single page web application framework that has a large eco system with many official and 3rd party add-ons. One essential add-on is the…
Dropwizard provides a great infrastructure for creating microservices. Jetty for http, Jersey for Rest, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics and other useful helper libraries can be seen as a “best of breed” approach for developing microservices with the java platform. The usage of CDI in web- and backend applications however has been essential in…