WaveMaker v10.7 is here!
In this release, you will find capabilities and features that aim to empower professional developers to build complex and scalable applications using low-code. As always, WaveMaker aligns itself with the latest technology stack and industry best practices for modern software delivery.
With v10.7, WaveMaker continues to enable enterprise IT teams and ISVs to build faster and build better with low-code. Here’s how.
Do you have multiple teams working in parallel on different features and hotfixes? WaveMaker in its earlier releases provided support for an array of source code repositories like Git, GitLab, and BitBucket to support version control. WaveMaker 10.7 goes one step further. Software teams that have adopted Agile or Scaled Agile (SAFe) need to work on multiple streams of development simultaneously. To support this, WaveMaker creates a project workspace mirroring branches created in the corresponding Git repository. This allows them to deploy new features to production continuously and rapidly while teams work on the next version of the app. ‘Branching’ makes it easier to manage large-scale projects with multiple release trains and versions during its life cycle.
Enterprises are leveraging data warehouses to examine and analyze petabytes of data and gain valuable insights. AWS Redshift is one such data warehouse of importance. If you are a low-code user interested in strengthening your data capabilities through Redshift, WaveMaker 10.7 is just right for you. Developers can now connect to the underlying RedShift database schema in a matter of minutes with a few clicks and create logical data models mirroring the Redshift data source. They can then proceed to leverage the 150+ UI widgets and templates that WaveMaker provides to rapidly visualize data from the RedShift data source.
Are you looking to create purpose-built applications to automate interactions that are tedious to achieve in SAP? Now you can import your SAP HANA database into WaveMaker and build that application without having to copy the data.
In Version 10.7, WaveMaker supports a native integration to the SAP HANA database as a primary data storage. Application developers can then easily model on top of the HANA DB with WaveMaker’s in-built visual tools and expand S / 4 HANA’s existing database. They can even build new web / mobile apps with the power of the SAP HANA database. WaveMaker facilitates developers to leverage the advantages of this in-memory cloud DBaaS (Database as a service) with just a few clicks.
In addition to these, WaveMaker now provides support for all new versions of existing databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server. To see a list of all the databases and their versions that we support, click here.
Many Enterprises have strict guidelines on accessing private repositories for application build and dependency management. With this release, all UI artifacts required for generating the Angular app will be published to Node Package Manager (NPM) repository. This removes any dependency on external cloud servers (S3 or Maven providers). Additionally, customers currently integrating WaveMaker to their custom CI/CD pipelines can now pull the dependencies from standard npm repositories while pushing the application across the pipeline.
WaveMaker has strengthened its security credentials with the achievement of “Veracode™ Verified Standard (Veracode Seal)” for WaveMaker generated application code. Going beyond addressing OWASP’s top 10 vulnerabilities, Veracode scans run extensive checks on WaveMaker generated code and at all times WaveMaker comes out unscathed. This in effect, translates to faster and easier development because developers can now focus on building the software rather than worry about its security aspects. Apart from fortifying the platform, WaveMaker application developers can easily implement constraints on the number of concurrent logins that are allowed for their application users. WaveMaker supports myriad ways to integrate SSO into its application. In WaveMaker 10.7, the SSO flow is optimized to let application users log in automatically if their SSO session is still active.
WaveMaker continues to strive to provide the “best-of-breed” technology stack to all its users. With this release, WaveMaker-built apps can leverage newer versions of several open-source libraries including spring framework, spring-security, ngx-bootstrap, logging to name a few. The complete list can be found here. In addition to these WaveMaker 10.7 has added several features keeping customer requirements in mind.
Optimizing the queries that read the database metadata has resulted in faster import of the Database Schema. On-Demand pagination and Infinite Scroll support on table widget, the ability to group data shown in dropdown menus, search auto-complete widgets are some new enhancements to keep an eye out for. To see the complete list of new features, please read our release notes here.
With each release, WaveMaker strives to bring low-code closer to modern development teams building serious applications. Keep watching this space, there is a lot more to come.
