Vaadin

It’s funny how things come in sequences. Recently, on three separate occasions, I stumbled upon questions asking what people used for front-end technologies. Every time, my answer was Vaadin. Unfortunately, some places, e.g. Twitter, are too limiting to explain my answer in depth. In this blog, I’ve no such limitations. In one sentence, Vaadin is a framework to create GUI using plain Java, or any JVM-based language for that matter. One develop in Java, and the framework takes care o

In Vaadin, to change the components displayed on the screen, there are a few options. The most straightforward way is to use the setContent() method on the UI. The most widespread way is to use the navigator. Views managed by the navigator automatically get a distinct URI, which can be used to be able to bookmark the views and their states and to go back and forward in the browser history. — Vaadin documentation This is the main asset for apps managing catalogs, such as e-commerce s