"WaveMaker is the best thing that we've run across since chocolate milk."

Neal Hacker, CEO, Dynaroo

Bastian Maat of SAP Belgium

WaveMaker provides a RAD tool for Ajax developers, allowing developers to create rich internet applications without having to learn complex coding languages.

LiveForms and Templating

Easy to use platform to build web apps: Web Fast

Generates pure Java web application: CIO Safe

One-button deployment: Virtualization-ready

Services architecture: The face of SOA

When to use WaveMaker:◦ Rapid Application Development projects◦ Form-driven database apps◦ Front end “face” for SOA architecture

When NOT to use WaveMaker:◦ Complex transactional systems (traditional J2EE)◦ Complex workflow (traditional BPM)

WaveMaker applications are based on ◦ industry standard◦ open source technologies including:Spring (Java server),

DOJO (Ajax widgets), Hibernate (database access), JAXWS (web services), JSON-RPC (client/server communication) and Acegi (security).

Java Services: Integrate existing Java code. Web Services: Connect with web services created using

WSDL, REST or RSS. Databases: Connect to almost any relational data source and

import schema. Security: Use LDAP, database security, rolebased access

controls and single-sign on solutions. Flexible Deployment: WaveMaker Studio creates standard

WAR _les that can be deployed to any JDK 1.5+ Java Server. One-click Cloud Deployment: Applications built in

WaveMaker Studio can deploy directly to EC2. RightScale Integration: For multi-server deployments,

WaveMaker integrates with RightScale's cloud management platform.

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio: An intuitive, browser-based, WYSIWYG visual builder for rapidly assembling web applications.

One-Click Widget & Template Publishing: Turns any WaveMaker page into a widget or template for reuse in projects.

Enterprise-Ready Data Widgets: Pre-built templates & Ajax components assist in building a rich user interface in any browser without writing code.

Live Forms: Create CRUD database forms with a single click.

Live Layout: Preview live data within the Studio. And more...Charting Widgets, Diagnostics, Context-

sensitive Help, Type Validation Flags, Resource Manager

WaveMaker , Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight Common features between WaveMaker and

AdobeFlex ◦ Used for developing Ajax based applications and Java

technologies◦ Component based development: Containers/Layout

Components, UI Elements, Data Connectors◦ Components can be extended for additional capabilities or reuse◦ Containers control layout (Canvas, Vertical Box, Horizontal Box)◦ UI components display data, control interactivity or display

states or other visual feedback (Datagrids, lists, buttons, selects menus, radio buttons, etc.)

◦ Data components load or send data (Services, XML, Remoting, etc)

WaveMaker Studio

Databases Web services Dojo Widgets Templates (CSS,

HTML)

● Java WAR file● Database

structure● Widgets● Templates

Pure Java Web Application

Import Export

JSON RequestJSON Request

JavaScript Object Notation lightweight data-interchange format easy to read and to write (for humans) easy to parse and generate (for machines) completely language independent, also

similar to C-family of languages reduces bandwidth requirements by

reducing the amount of traffic between the client (Web Browser) and the server (Web / App Server).

Acegi Ant Antlr Apache CommonsDojo Ezmorph Fast Infoset Hibernate Hypersonic DB Java JAF JAX-WS JAXB

JDOM Jsonlib JsonView.java Log4j ROME SAAJ SJSXP Spring StAX Tomcat WSDL4J XML

Hibernate usage can be a potential performance bottleneck.

When creating or editing the table structure extra care is needed since all the data in the database can be lost.

The modification of the data model incurs another import of the entire data source – in the development phase this can mean serious headaches.

Does not support RPC/encoded style WSDL -> not all WSs are supported.