In this video I show how simple it can be to add drag and drop to a Vaadin application! Drag and Drop can be helpful in many situations, but often it’s complicated to implement. That’s not the case with Vaadin. Vaadin makes it easy to have drag-and-drop support for all components. The post Video: Vaadin Drag & Drop Support. It’s …

Introduction In distributed, microservice-based applications, the management of state is one of the most important, yet difficult aspects of design. Ensuring the accuracy and consistency of state without introducing excessive complexity that affects performance or flexibility to support evolving requirements requires careful thought. This article discusses issues around state management and shows how the Chronicle Services framework provides support to …

Have fun with this overview of the “JavaFX LinksOfTheWeek” that got published on jfx-central.com during November! Core Carl Dea shared: “JavaFX 22 will be supporting platform specific settings! E.g. dark and light mode etc.”. See JDK-8319138: Platform preferences API. Also worth following: JDK-8305116: “Frosty / Milky / diffuse transparency areas showing desktop background” Dirk Lemmermann is looking forward to the …