
For a long time, I’ve maintained a guide featuring some of my favorite online radio stations. Over the last 2 year, however, it had become a bit neglected. So today, I’m proud to present the updated 2010 version of the guide. I’ve purged the defunct stations, added a few new ones. I’ve also cleaned up the layout and added a little bling. So if you haven’t checked out the guide, or even if you have, now is the time to click through.








Obtaining Services and Repositories in Vaadin
One problem that you’ll face in practically any application, including a Vaadin-powered one, is getting hold of data or external services. Usually this functionality is put in some kind of service facade, or for instance a repository. Vaadin presents a problem in this regard, because it uses classes on both client (compiled to JavaScript) and server. You can’t (and don’t want to) execute service methods on the browser. Luckily, thanks to modern frameworks and good old Java, this turns out to be incredibly easy.
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