Matti says about web apps…

Connecting large amounts of data to UI

Connecting large amounts of data to UI may sometimes become a tricky task. Although you really aren’t earning any “UX medals” by listing thousands of entities in a UI data table, it is still often done due to its simplicity. I have done it and probably will do…

Hassle with the new Eclipse LocationTech version of JTS (Java Topology Suite)

Migrating Articles from Liferay to Medium

Importing existing posts to Medium isn’t easy. Medium supports importing blogs from Wordpress, but nothing more. As I don’t have thousands of entries, I could, of course, do it manually, but then all the posts would be dated for today. The service desk at…

3 pro tips for Vaadin developers

I have my good days and bad days. I wrote this article on a bad day, but I hope you will have more good days because of it. I love our flagship product, Vaadin, but I also “know too much” about it. I know we have some bad features (or “room for improvement” if using…

Creating the Perfect Project Setup for a Vaadin Add-on

Vaadin add-ons are basically jar files, with extra manifest entries to help Vaadin related tools identify and make use of them. Vaadin Directory requires some entries and widget set tools wants one that declares possible GWT extensions…

Making your Vaadin Add-on cope with dependency management systems

It is year 2016. Everybody expects Vaadin add-ons, and any other Java library, can be used by simply adding its dependency to the projects build file (Maven, IVY, Gradle) that is using it. Vaadin Directory provides…