WaveMaker is an enterprise grade

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low code platform for building software applications and platforms. WaveMaker Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For enterprises, WaveMaker is a low code platform that aims to accelerate their app development and IT modernization efforts. For ISVs, it is a consumable low code component that can sit inside their product and offer customizations. WaveMaker Platform is a licensed software that enables organizations to run their own end-to-application

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(aPaaS) for building and running custom apps. It also allows developers and business users to create apps that can be extended or customized. Those apps can consume APIs, visualize data and automatically support multi-device responsive interfaces. WaveMaker's low code platform enables organizations to deploy applications on public or private cloud infrastructure, and containers can be deployed on top of virtual machines or on bare metal. The software provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) console to manage the IT app infrastructure and capabilities based on Docker containerization. The solution provides features for app deployment automation, app lifecycle management, release management, deployment workflow and access rights, including: * Apps for web, tablet, and smartphone interfaces * Enterprise technologies like

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, AngularJS,

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* Docker-provided APIs and CLI * Software stack packaging, container provisioning, stack and app upgrading, replication, and fault tolerance

WaveMaker Studio

WaveMaker RAD Platform is built around WaveMaker Studio, a

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rapid development tool that allows computer-literate business users to compose an application using a drag-and-drop method. WaveMaker Studio supports

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(RAD) for the web, similar to what products like

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provided for client server computing. WaveMaker Studio allows developers to produce an application once, then auto-adjust it for a particular target platform, whether a PC, mobile phone, or tablet. Applications created using the WaveMaker Studio follow a model–view–controller architecture. WaveMaker Studio has been downloaded more than two million times. The Studio community consists of 30,000 registered users. Applications generated by WaveMaker Studio are licensed under the Apache license. Studio 8 was released September 25, 2015. The prior version, Studio 7, has some notable development milestones. It was based on AngularJS framework, previous Studio versions (6.7, 6.6, 6.5) use the

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. Some of the features of WaveMaker Studio 7 include: * Automatic generation of

mapping, Hibernate queries from database schema import. * Automatic creation of Enterprise Data Widgets based on schema import. Each widget can display data from a database table as a grid or edit form. Edit form implements create, update, delete functions automatically. * WYSIWYG Ajax development studio runs in a browser. * Deployment to

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. * Mashup tool to assemble web applications based on

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web services, Java Services and databases. * Supports existing CSS,

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code. * Deploys a standard Java .war file.

Technologies and Frameworks

WaveMaker allows users to build applications that run on "Open Systems Stack" based on the following technologies and frameworks: AngularJS, Bootstrap, NVD3,

, CSS,

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. The various supported integrations include: * Databases: Oracle,

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, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2,

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* Authentication:

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, CAS, Custom Java Service, Database * Version Control:

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* Deployment: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, WaveMaker Private Cloud ( Docker containerization), IBM Web Sphere,

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, JBoss(WildFly),

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* App Stores:

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History

* WaveMaker was founded as ActiveGrid in 2003. * In November 2007, ActiveGrid was rebranded as WaveMaker. * WaveMaker was acquired by

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, Inc in March 2011 but after two years VMWare terminated the support for the WaveMaker project in March 2013. * In May 2013, Pramati Technologies acquired the assets of WaveMaker from VMWare. * In February 2014, WaveMaker, Inc. released WaveMaker Studio 6.7, the last version of the open source, downloadable Studio. * In September 2014, WaveMaker, Inc. launched WaveMaker RAD Platform (with WaveMaker Studio version 7), licensed software that enabled organizations to run their own end-to-end application platform as a service (aPaaS) for building and running custom apps.

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