The last time we’ve seen a development tool with such a head start over the competition was with PowerBuilder and client-server development in the 1990’s. WaveMaker is the hottest development platform for RIA available with over 15,000 developers worldwide. What sets WaveMaker apart from the competition? I love that WaveMaker works in Google Chrome and I have yet to encounter any problems with it which is great, I can’t stand tools that require I use the painfully slow Internet Explorer. Though similarities exist, PowerBuilder is a fat client, Win32 style tool and WaveMaker is a pretty Web 2.0 IDE that runs in your browser.
To do that in PowerBuilder you’d actually need to create two datawindows, and write code to share them, sync them and call update functions. In the application I created, a grid style list on the top and free-form detail view on the bottom. When you drag-and-drop the data widgets onto your application window, WaveMaker automatically creates “datawindow like” update forms. You can import your data-model into WaveMaker and the data widgets are created for each of the tables in your database while taking into consideration the relationships between tables.
WaveMaker even has a feature mildly resembling the datawindow in PowerBuilder called enterprise data widgets. Like PowerBuilder you can create database update applications with no code, or very little code. The interface has similarities to PowerBuilder in the sense that much of the development is drag-and-drop and WYSIWYG. The finished product is a real Java application deployed as a. If I had to describe WaveMaker in one sentence, I’d say it is an open, development IDE, that will help you build impressive looking RIA (Rich Internet Applications) without needing to know how to use CSS, HTML or Java. It has a visual drag-and-drop interface that makes Web 2.0 and cloud application development easy and fun, like what PowerBuilder did for client-server. WaveMaker is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG development tool for the cloud platform. WaveMaker ™ delivers for the cloud like PowerBuilder did for client-server About WaveMaker Rapid Application Development for Business-Critical Web 2.0 Applications
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