feat: Add daily active users license model documentation

.github/styles/Vaadin/Abbr.yml

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   - CSS
   - CSV
   - CVSS
+  - DAU
   - DNS
   - DOM
   - DPI

articles/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users.adoc

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+---
+title: Daily Active Users
+layout: tabbed-page
+description: Short description
+order: 10
+---
+
+[role="since:com.vaadin:vaadin@v24.5"]
+= Daily Active Users
+
+Daily Active User (DAU) represents a *human end-user* using one application, that customer builds with Vaadin, during a 24 hours period.
+Vaadin limits the DAU number in some subscription plans and doesn't for other plans, see https://vaadin.com/pricing[Pricing] page for more information.
+DAU license model is only supported by Vaadin versions starting from 24.5.
+
+This article describes the DAU license model and how to customise it for project's specifics.
+
+== How Are End-Users Counted
+
+DAU counting is made per Vaadin application or a group of applications sharing the same subscription.
+End-users do not need to log in the application to be counted as DAU, *anonymous* users are counted as well.
+Vaadin uses a persistent technical cookie with expiration time *24 hours* as a main method for end-users counting.
+This ensures that the same user is counted only once between his sessions during the day.
+
+End-users, who use the application with two or more different browsers or devices, are counted twice or more by default.
+Vaadin provides an API to configure application *user identity* (e.g. use an email of the logged-in user), this ensures the same logged-in end-user to be counted as a single user, no matter from what browser or device an application is used.
+
+See <<{articles}/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users#customizing-user-identity-supplier, User Identity Supplier>> for more information and examples.
+
+An end-user needs to interact with the application to be counted - merely opening the application in a browser and closing it immediately does not count as DAU. The threshold of activity for DAU is *1 minute*.
+
+== Where And How The DAU Information Is Stored
+
+Vaadin doesn't collect or store any end-users personal data, but only a number of end-users.
+If an application provides a user identity function, this identity is hashed immediately and published to Vaadin’s license server as a hash value that cannot tell anything about the end-users.
+Vaadin license server only stores the hashes generated this way and counts unique number of hashes per day, i.e. DAU number.
+Vaadin application stores these hashes in memory and doesn't persist it anywhere, rather than publishing to Vaadin’s license server once a day.
+
+== What Happens When DAU Exceeds The Limit
+
+Vaadin follows the soft DAU limit rules.
+DAU limit is enforced, but the enforcement is done in a way that minimizes the risk of disruption to customer’s production applications.
+Vaadin allows a limit to be exceeded temporarily - every time limit is exceeded, a *30-day grace period* starts.
+Customer’s administrators are alerted by email, when DAU exceeds the limit.
+The email notification informs the customer that the grace period has started and provides guidelines on why it occurred and how to resolve the issue.
+
+After half of the grace period has passed (*15 days*), if the limit is still exceeded for at least past *5 consecutive days*, then:
+
+- Customer is alerted that limit enforcement may start soon
+- Vaadin team is alerted to allow them to contact Customer for solving the issue by offering an increased DAU limit.
+
+After the grace period has ended, if the limit hasn't been increased:
+
+- if DAU limit is reached on *3 consecutive days*, the DAU limit is enforced and application responds with `Service Unavailable` error - not allowing additional end-users that day, but remaining fully functional for users that were counted before the limit was reached;
+- Every time limit is exceeded, Customer is alerted and explained that continuing to ignore the issue results in application’s usage being restricted.
+
+After the limit has been updated, the grace period and enforcement are deactivated.
+After this, a new grace period is started in case of another DAU limit overrun.
+
+Emails for notifications can be added on the "Subscriptions" page of your account at https://vaadin.com/myaccount/subscriptions[vaadin.com] web-site, see <<{articles}/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users#what-is-available-in-my-account-page, What information is available on personal account page>>.
+
+== DAU Is Only Calculated For Production Environments
+
+The DAU license model only counts the end-users, when the Vaadin application runs in production mode.
+
+Testing environments, such as staging or performance tests environments, may use production mode as well.
+Vaadin provides a way to avoid DAU counting for these environments:
+
+- set a unique string name to `vaadin.applicationIdentifier` property for each Vaadin application that runs on test environment;
+- add these application names on the "Subscriptions" page at https://vaadin.com/myaccount/subscriptions[vaadin.com] web-site.
+
+Vaadin uses a hash string by default (if this property in not defined) as application name that is based on project's unique parameters (`groupId` and `artifactId` for Maven, `projectName` for Gradle).
+To distinguish default and custom application names, it adds also the `app-` prefix.
+Thus, it is recommended to not use `app-` prefix for your custom application names.
+
+See <<{articles}/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users#what-is-available-in-my-account-page, What information is available on personal account page>> for more information.
+
+== How To Build And Run Applications
+
+To build Vaadin applications for production under a subscription plan with DAU license model, you need to use the server license key, as described in <<{articles}/flow/configuration/licenses#server-license-key, License Validation on a CI/CD or Build Server>> article.
+Then you need to obtain the subscription key from the "Licenses" -> "DAU" page of your personal account in https://vaadin.com/myaccount/licenses[vaadin.com] web-site:
+
+image::images/subscription-key.png[]
+
+Figure 1 - Subscription Key page
+
+Finally, you *must* configure this subscription key for each application that runs within the same subscription.
+It can be set in the following ways:
+
+- as a `vaadin.subscriptionKey` system property;
+- as a `VAADIN_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY` environment variable;
+- in a file with name `subscriptionKey` in Vaadin home directory - `%userprofile%\.vaadin\` for Windows, `~/.vaadin/` for macOS/Linux;
+- use a server license key (or offline key) file that was used to build the application.
+
+If Vaadin does not find the subscription key in any of the sources above, it fails fast the application’s startup with the corresponding message.
+
+If you use subscription plan with DAU license model and want to build your application for production by not using the server license key (e.g. if you want to build from a local machine with internet access), you *must* set the subscription key.
+See the instructions above where to find it and how to set this key.
+
+[[what-is-available-in-my-account-page]]
+== What Information Is Available On Personal Account Page
+
+Below you can see an example of a "Subscription" page in https://vaadin.com/myaccount/subscriptions[vaadin.com] personal account:
+
+*Customer account number and Subscriptions*
+Select an account number from the select drop-down and subscriptions of this account that you’d like to browse.
+
+*DAU chart*
+You can browse visually the DAU distribution over the time, as well as the current DAU limit and maximum DAU number for the past 28 days.
+Use time interval selectors for filtering by date.
+
+*Subscribe to alerts*
+Add a new email address to which Vaadin sends DAU-related alerts by entering it into the text field.
+Use "X" to remove an email address and "Subscribe to alerts" button to save it.
+
+*Add test application names*
+Specify identifiers for your application(s) running on testing environments by entering them into a text field.
+Use "X" to remove an application name and "Add application name" button to save it.
+
+image::images/subscriptions-view.png[]
+
+Figure 2 - Subscriptions page
+
+== Customizations
+
+You can customize the Daily Active Users feature in your Vaadin application using the [interfacename]`DAUCustomizer` interface. This customization is crucial for tracking unique users across multiple devices and tailoring the enforcement notification messages displayed to them.
+
+The [interfacename]`DAUCustomizer` interface allows you to implement two key customizations:
+
+* User Identity Supplier: This allows the system to identify and count a user as a single entity, even when they access the application from multiple devices.
+* Enforcement Notification Messages: This allows you to provide custom messages and, optionally, a landing page for the enforcement notification popup that users might encounter.
+
+=== Implementing DAU Customization
+
+To apply the available customizations, you need to create a class that implements the [interfacename]`DAUCustomizer` interface.
+Only one implementation of this interface is permitted per application, and it is discovered through the Vaadin [interfacename]`Instantiator`.
+Making the [interfacename]`DAUCustomizer` implementation available to your application depends on the architecture you are using.
+For a plain Java servlet application, you need to register the implementation using the Java ServiceLoader mechanism. To do this, create a [filename]`META-INF/services/com.vaadin.flow.server.dau.DAUCustomizer` file that lists the fully qualified name of your custom class.
+For Spring, CDI, and Quarkus applications, it is sufficient to expose your [interfacename]`DAUCustomizer` implementation as a [annotationname]`@Singleton` or [annotationname]`@ApplicationScoped` bean, which is picked up automatically by the framework.
+Quarkus developers should also add the [annotationname]`@Unremovable` annotation to the implementation class, to prevent Quarkus to consider the bean unused and therefore removed at build time.
+
+
+*Example*: Registering DAU customization for Spring, CDI, and Quarkus
+
+[.example]
+--
+[source,java]
+.`Spring`
+----
+package com.yourpackage;
+
+@Component
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+    // Implementation omitted for brevity
+}
+----
+
+[source,java]
+.`CDI`
+----
+package com.yourpackage;
+
+@Singleton
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+    // Implementation omitted for brevity
+}
+----
+
+[source,java]
+.`Quarkus`
+----
+package com.yourpackage;
+
+@Singleton
+@Unremovable
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+    // Implementation omitted for brevity
+}
+----
+
+--
+
+*Example*: Registering DAU customization for Plain Java Servlet Application
+
+[source,java]
+----
+package com.yourpackage;
+
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+    // Implementation omitted for brevity
+}
+----
+[source,text]
+.`META-INF/services/com.vaadin.flow.server.dau.DAUCustomizer`
+----
+com.yourpackage.MyDAUCustomizer
+----
+
+[[customizing-user-identity-supplier]]
+=== Customizing User Identity Supplier
+
+The user identity supplier is a function that defines how the system identifies a unique user. By default, this feature is not enabled. However, you can provide a custom implementation to count a user only once, regardless of how many different devices or browser applications on a single device they use to access your application.
+The function must always return the same value for a given user of the application, or an empty [classname]`Optional` if it is not possible to determine the user identity for the current request.
+
+*Example*: Customize DAU User Identity Supplier.
+
+[source,java]
+----
+@Singleton
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+
+    @Override
+    public UserIdentitySupplier getUserIdentitySupplier() {
+        return userIdentityContext -> Optional.ofNullable(
+            // In this example a session attribute is supposed to be saved
+            // upon authentication and then used to provide the user identity
+            (String) userIdentityContext.session().getAttribute("userId")
+        );
+    }
+}
+----
+
+=== Customizing Enforcement Notification Messages
+
+The enforcement notification messages are used to notify users about application usage restrictions caused by exceeding the DAU limit.
+An enforcement message object has four properties: a short caption, a message, an optional detailed text such as technical details or further explanation, and a URL to where to redirect after displaying the notification to the user. If the URL is not specified, the current page is reloaded.
+
+The [methodname]`getEnforcementNotificationMessages()` method receives a [classname]`SystemMessagesInfo` parameter to allows access to the UI locale, so that messages can be translated in the current user language.
+
+The default values of the properties are shown below:
+
+* `caption`: Service Unavailable
+* `message`: Please notify the administrator. Take note of any unsaved data, and click here or press ESC to continue.
+* `details`: null
+* `url`: null
+
+*Example*: Customize enforcemente notification messages.
+
+[source,java]
+----
+public class MyDAUCustomizer implements DAUCustomizer {
+
+    @Override
+    public EnforcementNotificationMessages getEnforcementNotificationMessages(SystemMessagesInfo systemMessagesInfo) {
+        return new EnforcementNotificationMessages(
+            "DAU Limit Reached",                                 // caption
+            "The allowed number of users has been exceeded.",    // message
+            "Please contact customer service.",                  // details
+            "/device-management"                                 // url
+        );
+    }
+}
+----
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+The URL parameter should reference either a static page or a dynamic page that is not built with Vaadin.
+A Vaadin view would not be shown because of DAU restriction.
+====
+

articles/flow/configuration/licenses.adoc → articles/flow/configuration/licenses/index.adoc

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 You need a commercial license only if you use one of the commercial components (such as, Vaadin Charts) or tools (such as, Vaadin TestBench).
 If your project includes such components or tools, a commercial license is needed for development and to build the production application.
 
-In general, you don't need a license after deploying an application to production.
-The only exception is Collaboration Kit, which requires a license for production use, and it's priced per end user.
-See <<{articles}/tools/collaboration/developing-with-ce#,Collaboration Kit documentation>> for details.
+Vaadin requires production runtime license only for the following cases:
+
+- Premium subscription that counts <<{articles}/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users#, Daily Active Users>>;
+- Collaboration Kit for Vaadin versions before 24.5 is priced per end user, see <<{articles}/tools/collaboration/developing-with-ce#,Collaboration Kit documentation>> for details.
+Collaboration Kit is free from Vaadin 24.5 onwards.
+
+For other use cases, you don't need a license after deploying an application to production.
 
 [[online-license-key]]
 == License Validation on a Local Machine