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JVx 2.8 is available

We're happy to announce that JVx 2.8 is available. It's a big release with lots of important bug fixes and some awesome new features. The last release of JVx was in January. It was version 2.7 which was more or less a small bugfix release with few new features. We took more time for JVx 2.8 to make it awesome.

What's new?

  • Placeholder/Prompt support

    This feature is available for input fields and cell editors. Simply enable this feature:

    editor.setPlaceholderVisible(true);
    editor.setPlaceholder("PLACEHOLDER");

    to get

    Prompt support

    Prompt support

  • New popup menu button

    This new button reduces the visible components. It's a must have for modern applications:

    Menu button

    Menu button

  • Savepoints for transaction handling in PostgreSql
  • Components have a unique name

    This is an important feature fore UI tests and our headless UI as well. It's now possible to address components in vaadin UI by their id to apply custom css.

  • Configurable REST services
  • Mac OS UI improvements

The full changelog is available here.

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