limefert.blogg.se - Icefaces to primefaces migration

I can have a decent Java programmer start contributing to our core codebase within 3–4 weeks. But with Vaadin, we have shortened our ramp-up time by 300%. It would take 4 months for a new team member to get ramped up on it. Our previous UI technology was Sencha ExtJS. Since we had experienced Java developers in-house, Vaadin looked like a promising solution that would not only minimize our tech stack but also minimize the investment in training. Plus, I couldn’t kick out Java which has lots of libraries that help with our development. So I didn’t have the luxury to hire front-end JS specialists. “I didn’t have any funding to grow our headcount. Mark Reinhold giving a keynote on the future of Java at Oracle CodeOne 2018 in San Francisco Reason #1: With Vaadin, you can leverage your in-house back-end (Java) resources to build modern-looking UIs for your business web apps without having to deal with multiple front-end technologies.Ī CTO who has formerly worked at Amazon, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America shared with me how he evaluated the framework before adopting it for his company’s technology stack. 5 Reasons Why Enterprises Use Vaadin For Their Web Application UI Needs The following 5 points were part of the recurring answers I got from the interviews I had.

What is the path of least resistance to migrate our existing legacy/monolithic systems or Swing desktop application to the modern web such that we avoid technical debt in the long run?īelow are the findings of my research on why enterprises use Vaadin.

What is the productivity gain we can achieve by sticking with one language for web application development and avoid context switching between JS based client-side (Sencha ExtJS, JQuery, PrimeFaces, Angular, etc) and Java for the server-side?.

How do we leverage in-house Java resources to build modern-looking UIs for our web applications and minimize the overhead cost of having to hire front-end developers and not have to maintain multiple technologies?.

The 3 most common questions web application decision makers are asking themselves when updating their web UI technology stack to avoid technical debt are.