Check your Vaadin MVP architecture with Unit tests
Meik KaufmannAll 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: 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…
Unit tests for a Vaadin 8 MVP application
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…
A practical guide to MVP for Vaadin
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…
Use the Vaadin CDI Navigator to support bookmarks and browser navigation buttons
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…
Optimized UI for mobile and web with PrimeFaces
When developing web applications with JSF and PrimeFaces most target users are still using PC or laptops as they will use the application mainly during work hours. Mobile devices like…
Java 8 concurrency in a Vaadin UI
Right now - as I am writing this post - Vaadin is my favourite UI framework for Java web applications. While alot of frameworks seem to create just as much…