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Jfokus 2010 - The Biggest Java Conference in Sweden

2010-01-20T11:50:06Z

IT Mill will present Vaadin at Jfokus on January 27th, 2010. Come and see how Java-only web applications are built with Vaadin at our booth #14. Also, don't miss the presentation by Joonas Lehtinen on "RIA Security - Broken by Design":

"Rich Internet Applications (RIA) provide desktop-like usability with web deployment model. The benefits of this combination are obvious and RIA is now common a choice for the presentation layer in many applications. Unfortunately, moving logic from the server to an untrusted client may open up security holes that would not be present in the page-oriented "Web 1.0" architecture. In this presentation we will take a look at client- and server-side RIA architectures from the security angle, identify some of the most common security problems and discuss strategies for avoiding them. We'll go through some example applications implemented in both architectures and demonstrate the problems. Java-based RIA frameworks, Google Web Toolkit and Vaadin, are used in the examples, but the demonstrated principles are applicable to most other frameworks and languages as well."

Season's Greetings from IT Mill

2009-12-17T09:17:11Z

Year 2009 has been a very good year for Vaadin. The community is booming and new Vaadin applications are appearing all the time.

We will continue to make Vaadin even better in 2010. There will be new very interesting features and the support for third-party components has already been taken to the next level by the Vaadin 6.2 release.

Have a happy holiday and a merry Christmas. See you again in 2010.

Liferay and Vaadin Announce New Partnership

2010-01-14T13:53:59Z

Open Source technology leaders collaborate to provide enterprises richer user experience.

Los Angeles, CA – October, 13, 2009 – Liferay, Inc., provider of leading open source enterprise portal and collaboration software, and IT Mill Ltd., provider of the Vaadin rich user interface library, recently announced a new technology partnership. The collaboration will simplify and reduce the cost of developing sophisticated and secure rich user interfaces for Liferay-based enterprise applications.

"Liferay has become the leading independent, open source platform for building web applications to solve business problems in many industries,” said Joonas Lehtinen, CEO of IT Mill. “This is not surprising as its combination of an extensible, feature-rich platform and business-friendly licensing is unmatched in the market. We look forward to partnering with a team that shares our dedication to usability and has the enterprise market footprint to maximize the impact of Vaadin technology.”

Usable enterprise web applications have traditionally been difficult to develop because of a lack of standards support across browsers, the concentration of enterprise resources in Java development capabilities, and the security risks of other rich UI approaches. With Liferay and Vaadin, however, enterprises can develop secure, maintainable solutions that work like desktop applications to increase productivity and user adoption.

As a result of the partnership, the Vaadin library will be bundled with future Liferay software releases and be used to create rich interfaces for existing Liferay functionality such as webmail, content management, collaboration, and social networking. Developers will be able to take advantage of integrated tooling for Eclipse and use Vaadin components when creating new Liferay applications.

In its tenth year of development, Liferay Portal has been recognized for its innovation and enterprise market penetration, receiving many industry accolades including inclusion as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products.

The Apache-licensed Vaadin is based on Google Web Toolkit technology, but differentiates itself with a robust, secure and easy-to-use server-side development model. With Vaadin, developers can utilize AJAX without knowing HTML or JavaScript or requiring users to install any browser plug-ins.

"We have used many great tools for creating AJAX-enriched web applications,” said Brian Chan, Liferay’s Chief Software Architect. “However, Vaadin is unique in taking a Java-friendly approach to help companies use existing engineering resources to create enterprise-worthy applications that are secure and easy to use.”

For more information about Liferay Portal and the Vaadin framework, please visit www.liferay.com and www.vaadin.com.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay, Inc. is the provider of Liferay Portal, the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, with Fortune 500 clients worldwide. Liferay offers a commercial subscription through its Enterprise Edition to support enterprise deployments of its software. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Frankfurt and Dalian PRC. For more information, please visit http://www.liferay.com.

About IT Mill Ltd.

IT Mill Ltd. is the provider of Vaadin, the world's leading user interface framework that enables developing rich internet applications in server-side Java. Vaadin framework is free and open source with Apache 2.0 license and has a rapidly growing community of professional software developers. IT Mill offers support, services, training and tools to help building great user interfaces and applications with Vaadin. For more information, please visit http://vaadin.com.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc. IT Mill, Vaadin, and the Vaadin logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of IT Mill Ltd.

PRESS CONTACTS:

Alice Cheng
Liferay, Inc.
1-877-LIFERAY
pr @ liferay.com

Joonas Lehtinen
IT Mill Ltd.
+358-40-5035001
joonas.lehtinen @ itmill.com

In Press Open Source Changes Everything

2009-11-06T14:57:03Z

Fakta writes: Open Source changes IT companies' business model and has a profound impact on their marketing and management as well.

"Businesses can operate profitably by developing commercial products and services based on their own free open source products", IT Mill CEO, Joonas Lehtinen explains in Fakta-magazine. "It would be very expensive to achieve this kind of business model by traditional marketing. The global developer community helps the company or organization behind the open source to succeed."

The developer community's support has meant a lot for Vaadin, IT Mill's open source Java framework for building web applications.

"In turn, to support the developer community we started our own 'Community Friday' last fall. IT Mill's employees have the right to spend 10 % of their working hours in developing new ideas that promote our open source products - with no demands for profit or gain.", Mr Lehtinen continues.

Read the whole article here (in Finnish)

Fakta magazine brings solutions for self-development and the development and management of corporate activity, human resources and customers.

IT Mill wins Ride Your Bicycle to Work 2009 Competition

2009-11-05T13:15:02Z

IT Mill has won this year's 'Ride Your Bicycle to Work' Competition series for 21-100 employees!

The competition was held for the 12th time between May 11-18 for the 12th time. It was arranged by Valonia Service Centre for sustainable development and energy in Southwest Finland.

The goal for the competition is that people leave their cars at home and commute bicycling, jogging, walking or rollerskating instead - this is to say, commute for health and saving energy.

In all, 305 different companies, units or departments and 2551 persons participated in the competition this year, their total number of kilometres being 92 030. At IT Mill the kilometres totalled 614,2 and on average each IT Mill employee came to work 3,72 times without a motor-run vehicle during the competition week.

This victory won't be our last!

You'll find more information about the competition and Valonia here .

Vaadin 6 Server-Driven RIA Framework Announced - the Next Generation of IT Mill Toolkit

2009-11-06T14:34:46Z

IT Mill announces the release of Vaadin 6, a major revision of its server-driven RIA framework formerly known as IT Mill Toolkit. In addition to many enhancements and fixes, the release includes two entirely new tools: an Eclipse plugin and a preview version of a WYSIWYG user interface editor.

The release of Vaadin 6 comes just months after the first stable version of IT Mill Toolkit 5. With the demanding stabilization effort of the core library behind, the company is concentrating on new features, tools, and building up the community.

"The new name clarifies the difference between the company and the open source product", explains IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen. "The user and developer communities are growing fast, so we did not want to postpone the long overdue name change any longer."

With the unique server-driven concept developed by IT Mill, Vaadin provides a solid base for building rich web user interfaces for demanding web applications.

New Tools for Developer Productivity

The Vaadin plugin for the Eclipse IDE will accelerate the work of the developers and help them build good looking web interfaces for Java enterprise applications even faster.

The visual editor is especially useful when you are a new user and getting introduced to the framework

In addition to creating new web application projects using Vaadin, it supports the creation of client-side widgets using Google Web Toolkit, making the creation and integration of custom or third-party widgets trivial.

The WYSIWYG editor that also works under Eclipse is still under development, but the preview version included in Vaadin 6 release lets you see what is coming.

"The visual editor is especially useful when you are a new user and getting introduced to the framework", says Lehtinen. "You can easily learn all the built-in components, how you create a layout using the layout management components, and how you generally build an application. Later, the editor can prove great for prototyping."

The Eclipse plugin as well as traditional installation packages that include demos and sample code are available for immediate download at the www.vaadin.com website for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

In the next months, the development of Vaadin will focus on finishing the new WYSIWYG editor and developing major enhancements to the library itself.

Write Java, Nothing Else

Vaadin is proving to become the next major step forward in the evolution of web technologies. Built on the best Java web development concepts, Google Web Toolkit, Ajax, and server-side Java, it is a pioneering concept for RIA (Rich Internet Application) development.

Using tons of widgets, developers can build rich web applications easily with Java on the server-side, much like creating regular desktop applications with Swing or AWT. There is no need to know anything about the client-side Ajax code or JSON communications working under the hood.

Open Source to the Core

If the versatile set of standard widgets is not enough, developers can continue coding with Java on the client-side using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). "You can easily extend the standard widgets and integrate new ones in Java. This is a unique and highly productive combination of technologies", explains Mr. Lehtinen.

IT Mill Ltd is a Finnish software company specializing in the design and development of Rich Internet Applications. Vaadin, formerly IT Mill Toolkit, is the flagship open source product of the company, for which it provides commercial development and support services.

Live demos: http://vaadin.com/demo/
More Information and download: http://vaadin.com/

Upcoming Event Breakfast Seminar on June 11th

2009-11-06T12:11:10Z

You are most welcome to attend the ITViikko breakfast seminar IT Mill will be hosting on June 11th!

The main theme of the seminar is rich web user interfaces, usability and the new era of user friendly enterprise applications.

The city of Lahti's Fenix-project on electronic services will be presented.
Another interesting theme of the seminar is Open Source: Michael "Monty" Widenius, the founder and original developer of MySQL will be describing how it is possible to gain competitive edge by using Open Source tools - more important today than ever before!

Come and learn how to answer to the increasing demands for usability in browser-based solutions.

The complete program and registration details are found here.

See you at the seminar!

ICT Award to IT Mill

2009-11-06T12:03:24Z

IT Mill has received Turku Chamber of Commerce's annual ICT Award. According to the ICT Committee of the chamber IT Mill has proven that it is possible to combine open source products and traditional business in a well working and feasible way. The committee considers IT Mill as an excellent and inspring role model for other innovative software companies. The company's high international credibility was brought forth by the jury especially .

The award was given to IT Mill CEO, Mr Joonas Lehtinen at the Digital Tomorrow theme seminar. Mr Lehtinen has awarded the award money further to Free Software Foundation in order to support their work.

Turku Chamber of Commerce plays a significant role in promoting the interests of the commercial and industrial companies within the region.

More information here

Upcoming Event Codecamp at Tampere University of Technology May 18-22

2009-11-06T12:06:58Z

The Department of Software Systems at Tampere University of Technology is organizing a codecamp event this spring. The codecamp is an intensive learn-by-doing course, which focuses on the development of small-scale Open Source web applications.

IT Mill Toolkit for Web services is the chosen development platform this year. The codecamp will take place week 21 starting on May 18th and ending on May 22nd.

The event starts with a one day tutorial to the technology and will be held in English. The tutorial will also include general information on developing rich Web applications and user interface components using server-side technology and is open for everybody.
The next three days are for implementing own applications
Finally, the last day is for presentations and evaluation - with a great prize for the winner!

Come and learn from the leading experts in this field - and earn 3 credit points (eligible for postgraduate studies) while having fun!

For more information, timetables, registration details etc please check here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~delga/ITMillCodeCamp/

Upcoming Event JavaOne in San Francisco June 2-5

2009-11-06T14:23:51Z

Join IT Mill at the JavaOne conference where IT Mill is one of the exhibitors. The conference will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on June 2nd-5th.

This year's Conference will have one of the deepest curriculum programs yet. With more than 1,300 submissions, you can choose from avariety of tracks, labs, and BOFs that will enhance your skill set, help you problem-solve quicker and more efficiently, show you new tools and products, share code, and give you hands-on opportunities. You'll learn more about latest in tools, RIAs, Java technology, JavaFX, scripting, and much, much more.

The economy is tough, and learning dollars are tight. So if you have only one event you can attend this year, you definitely should make it JavaOne! Don't miss out!

Contact IT Mill to find out more and join us at the event - we'll have something really new to show you. See you there!

In Press IT Mill's Key Account Manager Fredrik Rönnlund

2009-11-06T12:51:58Z

IT Mill's new Key Account Manager, Fredrik Rönnlund was interviewed in Turun Sanomat.

"IT Mill is a unique career opportunity for me. IT Mill Toolkit -technology is impressive and cost effective. It is unrivalled in the whole world" Mr Rönnlund says. "The company has been growing very rapidly and the growth continues in 2009. Now it's time to expand to other Nordic countries as well as to Germany."

As a part of the sales team, Mr Rönnlund will be working with both old and new clients in Finland and abroad.

Read the whole interview here (In Finnish).

Turun Sanomat is the third largest 7-day newspaper in Finland. With 251 000 daily readers, Turun Sanomat is the most read newspaper in South-West Finland.

In News "More secure RIAs with Server Driven Solutions"

2009-11-06T13:21:44Z

IT Mill Project Manager, Sami Ekblad and CEO Joonas Lehtinen warn about the security issues in browser based RIAs

IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen was interviewed about security issues in RIAs or rich internet applications in IT Viikko.

"When thinking about the increasingly critical web systems today, it is common that a major part of the application is executed in the web browser. Security becomes harder to maintain as these parts can be analyzed by anyone. It is much easier to find and abuse the weaknesses in the code now than in the older systems where the code was protected in the servers", Mr. Lehtinen explains.

"IT Mill happens to have a very good solution to this problem. Our IT Mill Toolkit -technology is completely server-driven. This kind of "server side RIA" is both easier to manage and more secure."

Read the whole article here (in Finnish).

IT Viikko is one of the leading www sites for IT professionals in Finland and it is a part of Sanoma European media group.

Upcoming Event Jazoon09 in Zurich June 23-25

2009-11-06T13:50:35Z

Join IT Mill at Jazoon 09

in Zurich on June 23rd-25th where you'll have the chance to visit IT Mill's booth and discuss with IT Mill's representatives.

Jazoon'09 – The International Conference on Java Technology – will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from 22 to 25 June 2009 and will again attract famous Java experts and geeks to Zurich. In contrast to other events, Jazoon places emphasis on the active participation of the community and in turn invites everyone to contribute lectures on interesting research results, developments and practical experiences.

Contact IT Mill to find out more or join us at the event!

Server-driven Rich Web Applications in Pure Java - IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0 Now Ready for Production

2009-11-06T13:23:25Z

After over a year in beta and some 1500 fixed issues, IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0 is finally ready to provide a stable base for building rich web user interfaces for demanding web applications. The open source development tools for Windows, Mac and Linux are available for immediate download at the company website www.itmill.com.

"After developing this technology since year 2000, I believe that the now released version is the most solid ever and provides a good foundation for building serious applications on", explains IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen.

Write Java, Nothing Else

Release 5 of IT Mill Toolkit is a major step forward in the evolution of web technologies. A combination of the best Java web development concepts, using Google Web Toolkit, Ajax, and server-side Java is a pioneering concept for RIA (Rich Internet Application) development.

Using tons of widgets, developers can build rich web applications easily with Java on the server-side, much like creating regular desktop applications with Swing or AWT. There is no need to know anything about the client-side Ajax code or JSON communications working under the hood.

If the versatile set of standard widgets is not enough, developers can continue coding with Java on the client-side using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). "You can easily extend the standard widgets and integrate new ones in Java. This is a unique and highly productive combination of technologies", explains Mr. Lehtinen.

New Products for Developer Productivity

In the next months, the development of IT Mill Toolkit will focus on additional tools on top of the core library. An Eclipse plugin together with visual UI design tools will accelerate the work of the developers and help them build good looking web interfaces for Java enterprise applications even more faster.

"By the end of the summer, we intend to announce several additions to the product package that help developers create and manage IT Mill Toolkit projects.", tells Mr. Lehtinen.

Open Source to the Core

IT Mill Toolkit is released under the liberal Apache License version 2 - a widely adopted license for open-source tools that allows integration with commercial applications as well as other open source projects. "Unlike many competitors, IT Mill Toolkit uses the liberal Apache License that has no viral side effects or commercial restrictions", Mr. Lehtinen summarizes.

Live demos: http://www.itmill.com/demos/
More Information and download: http://www.itmill.com/itmill-toolkit/

Upcoming Event SDC2009 in Göteborg March 24

2010-01-20T08:05:17Z

Join IT Mill at

Scandinavian Development Conference 2009

in Göteborg on March 24th where IT Mill is a bronze partner.

Make sure you won't miss Sami Ekblad's tutorial to "Rich web applications in plain Java without plugins or JavaScript" the following day, March 25th. This in-depth open-source workshop will be 50% hands-on, 50% lecture and covers the following topics

Introduction to Server-side RIA
IT Mill Toolkit components and concepts
Getting started with a new web application project (hands-on)
Building a simple web application (hands-on)

If you haven't had a chance to attend a Developer Conference for a while, now could be your chance to meet with Developer key partners and learn about the latest and greatest new technologies available in the Java .NET and System i arena. You will be able to choose between 5 different tracks with a clear focus on system development. During the conference you will have the possibility to network with other Scandinavian developers, colleagues, partners and speakers.

Contact IT Mill to find out more or join us at the event and in the workshop!

IT Mill into Partner Agreement with CodeCraft - IT Mill RIA Technology to SaaS Applications

2009-11-06T14:59:28Z

IT Mill and CodeCraft have closed a partner agreement. With this agreement CodeCraft is authorized to act as an independant, nonexlusive distributor and seller of IT Mill's products and consulting services in Finland.

"We at IT Mill were convinced by CodeCraft's expertize and burning interest in our IT Mill Toolkit technology", Mr Ville Ingman, IT Mill technical sales manager describes. "There are hundreds of software companies in Northern Finland. To have local presence always helps" he continues.

Upcoming Event Javaforum in Malmö Feb 10

2009-11-06T13:28:32Z

Join IT Mill at the Javaforum meeting in Malmö on February 10th where IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen is giving a presentation on Rich web applications in plain Java without plugins or JavaScript.

Javaforum is a Swedish developer community and an official Java User Group (jug) with premier purpose is to support Swedish developers.

Contact IT Mill to find out more or join us at the event!

Upcoming Event ICT KAMPUS 2009 Feb 4

2009-11-06T13:29:07Z

Please join IT Mill at ICT Kampus 2009 Career Event in Turku on February 4th, 2009.

You'll hear what kind of a company IT Mill is. We'll tell you about different career opportunities at IT Mill and who knows- maybe you'll find yourself at our Turku or Salo office, working in a great and passionate team, learning new things every day.

More information about the event is found here.

Hope to see you there!

In Press Added Value through Creative Leadership

2009-11-06T14:58:34Z

IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen was interviewed in Turun Sanomat's Talous or Economy attachment today.

The subject of the article was creative leadership. In the article Mr Lehtinen describes how IT Mill has has taken advantage of new and creative ways of doing things. One of the latest ideas at IT Mill is Community Friday or CF. CF means that all the employees have the right to use some of their work time to their own software projects. The employees may choose whatever project interests them, with no demands for profit.

"CF has brought several new innovations into light already" Mr Lehtinen says. "It is quite certain that creative leaderhip is here to stay".

Read the whole article here (in Finnish).

Turun Sanomat is the third largest 7-day newspaper in Finland. With 251 000 daily readers, Turun Sanomat is the most read newspaper in South-West Finland.

Upcoming Event Jfokus 2009 Jan 27-28

2009-11-06T14:24:49Z

Join IT Mill at the Jfokus conference in Stockholm on January 27th-28th where IT Mill is one of the partners.

Jfokus is the largest annual conference for everyone who works with Java in Sweden. The conference is arranged by Javaforum Stockholm. Javaforum is a Swedish developer community and an official Java User Group (jug) with premier purpose is to support Swedish developers.

Contact IT Mill to find out more or join us at the event!