SAN FRANCISCO—May 04, 2009—WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced version 5.0 of its WaveMaker development platform. WaveMaker 5's productivity breakthrough comes from its "Enterprise-Ready Data Widgets" that automate all the work needed to connect visual web components to enterprise data.
"WaveMaker 5 allows anyone to build a great-looking, database-driven web application with just 3 mouse clicks," said Chris Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "WaveMaker's enterprise-ready data widgets automate all the heavy lifting needed to connect enterprise data to browser-based widgets. Our customers are finding that WaveMaker can knock out over 90% of the effort required to create rich internet applications."
"IT leaders are looking for ways to increase developer productivity and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of software. They want tools that are better suited to the task at hand, increase productivity while retaining architecture flexibility, support open standards, and maintain wide ecosystem support. WaveMaker is differentiating itself by building a product true to these tenets," stated Chris Haddad, Vice President and Service Director, Burton Group.
"KANA's contact center solutions are characterized by the amount of configuration and customization we offer our customers," says Mark Angel, KANA's chief technology officer. "We expect WaveMaker's development platform to reduce the costs to configure web-based agent desktops by over 75%. This translates to huge savings for our customers and competitive advantage for KANA."
Enterprise-Ready Data Widgets
Traditional approaches to web development, such as Java with Struts, require developers to write hundreds of lines of code to retrieve enterprise data and display it in a browser-based client. In contrast, WaveMaker Studio automatically creates custom, Enterprise-Ready Data Widgets for each database table. This completely eliminates the need for hand coding to build applications that display and edit table-based information.
Enterprise-ready data widgets have the following built-in capabilities:
Display enterprise data in grid: grids are sortable and support paging for large data sets.
Show enterprise data in editable form: forms automatically enforce data type validation & required fields
Create, update, delete data using edit form: automatically changes data into the underlying table
Feature Improvements to WaveMaker 5.0
WaveMaker 5 also includes a number of additional features:
Improved client performance: a new layout system only renders visible widgets, dramatically increasing performance of the overall system
One-click Widget Publishing: any WaveMaker page can be saved as as a composite widget or template for reuse in current or future projects
LiveForm with To-Many Relationships: LiveForms now handle to-many relationships by automatically displaying grids
Download The Free WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio
WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is available under a free, open source license, as well as a WaveMaker commercial license. Applications created using WaveMaker deploy as standard Java WAR files to Java servers such as IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss and Tomcat. With no proprietary code or languages involved, WaveMaker applications easily meet CIOs’ architecture, security and data policies.
To download a copy of WaveMaker, go to: www.wavemaker.com/downloads
About WaveMaker Software
WaveMaker Software™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, lets everyone quickly build and deploy great-looking web applications on-site or on-demand. WaveMaker is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Sippl Investments, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information, please visit http://wavemaker.com.
WaveMaker Software, Visual Ajax Studio, Web Fast and CIO Safe are trademarks of WaveMaker Software. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.
