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WaveMaker, Inc.
Company type	Private
Industry	Rapid Application Development; Low-code Platform; aPaaS; Digital Transformation ; Agile Software Development; Enterprise Software; Cloud computing; Computer Software
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Mountain View, CA
Key people	Vijay Pullur, CEO
Products	WaveMaker low code Studio & Platform
Number of employees	Approximately 250 (2016)
Website	www.wavemaker.com

WaveMaker is a Java-based low-code development platform designed for building software applications and platforms. The company, WaveMaker Inc., is based in Mountain View, California. The platform is intended to assist enterprises in speeding up their application development and IT modernization initiatives through low-code capabilities. Additionally, for independent software vendors (ISVs), WaveMaker serves as a customizable low-code component that integrates into their products.^{[citation needed]}

The WaveMaker Platform is a licensed software platform allowing organizations to establish their own end-to-application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for the creation and operation of custom apps.^[1] It allows developers and business users to create apps that are customizable. These applications can seamlessly consume APIs, visualize data, and automatically adapt to multi-device responsive interfaces.^[2]

WaveMaker's low-code platform allows organizations to deploy applications on either public or private cloud infrastructure. Containers can be deployed on top of virtual machines or directly on bare metal.^[2] The software features a Graphical User Interface (GUI) console for managing IT app infrastructure, leveraging the capabilities of Docker containerization.^[1]

The solution offers functionalities for automating application deployment, managing the application lifecycle, overseeing release management, and controlling deployment workflows and access permissions:^[1]^[3]

Apps for web, tablet, and smartphone interfaces
Enterprise technologies like Java, Hibernate, Spring, AngularJS, JQuery
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 WYSIWYG rapid development tool that allows business users to compose an application using a drag-and-drop method.^[4] WaveMaker Studio supports rapid application development (RAD) for the web, similar to what products like PowerBuilder and Lotus Notes provided for client-server computing.^[5]

WaveMaker Studio allows developers to produce an application once, then automatically adjust it for a particular target platform, whether a PC, mobile phone, or tablet.^[4] 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.^[6] Applications generated by WaveMaker Studio are licensed under the Apache license.^[7]

Studio 8 was released on 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 Dojo Toolkit. Some of the features WaveMaker Studio 7 include:

Automatic generation of Hibernate mapping, and 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, and delete functions automatically.
WYSIWYG Ajax development studio runs in a browser.^[8]
Deployment to Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss.
Mashup tool to assemble web applications based on SOAP, REST and RSS web services, Java Services and databases.
Supports existing CSS, HTML and Java code.
The ability to deploy 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, HTML, CSS, Apache Cordova, Hibernate, Spring, Spring Security, Java. The various supported integrations include:^[9]^[10]^[11]

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, HSQLDB
Authentication: LDAP, Active Directory, CAS, Custom Java Service, Database
Version Control: Bitbucket (or Stash), GitHub, Apache Subversion
Deployment: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, WaveMaker Private Cloud (Docker containerization), IBM Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, SpringSource tcServer, Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss(WildFly), GlassFish
App Stores: Google Play, Apple App Store, Windows Store

History

In 2003, WaveMaker was founded as ActiveGrid. Then, in 2007, it was rebranded as Wavemaker.^[12] It was acquired by VMware in 2011.^[13] In March 2013, support for the WaveMaker project was discontinued.^[14]

In May 2013, Pramati Technologies acquired the assets of WaveMaker.^[15] In February 2014, Wavemaker Studio 6.7 was released, which was the last open source version of Studio.^[16] In September 2014 WaveMaker Inc. launched the WaveMaker RAD Platform, which allowed organizations to run their own application platform for building and running apps.^[17]

In March 2023, WaveMaker released version 11.5, which includes enhanced low-code development capabilities and new AI-driven tools to streamline the application development process.

References

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^ ^a ^b "WaveMaker Launches aPaaS Environment Based on Docker Containers". Programmable Web. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ "WaveMaker Enterprise Launches for Rapid API App Development". Talkin' Cloud. 17 September 2014. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b Babcock, Charles (16 September 2014). "WaveMaker PaaS Bets On Docker". InformationWeek. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ "Is WaveMaker the Web 2.0 Version of PowerBuilder?". Hurwitz Group. November 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
^ Leopold, George (16 September 2014). "WaveMaker Leverages Docker for App Delivery". EnterpriseTech. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ "WaveMaker Ajax Framework License Information". WaveMaker. February 23, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-03-03. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
^ "WaveMaker Visual Ajax Tool". InfoWorld. April 20, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
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^ "Integrations". Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
^ "ActiveGrid Re-brands as WaveMaker". Developer's PowerBuilder Journal. 2007-11-07. Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
^ "WaveMaker Springs To VMware". WaveMaker. March 8, 2011. Archived from the original on June 1, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
^ "Announcing the release of WaveMaker 6.5.3". WaveMaker. March 14, 2013. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
^ "Pramati Acquires WaveMaker". Pramati Technologies. 2013-05-01. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
^ "Announcing the release of WaveMaker 6.7.0". WaveMaker. 2014-02-25. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-15.
^ "WaveMaker Revolutionizes Custom Application Development". CloudExpo Journal. 2014-09-16. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-15.