WaveMaker Review: Java RAD Tool for Web Applications

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• May 2, 2011 By Shekhar Gulati  Bio »

What Is WaveMaker?

WaveMaker is an open source, visual, drag-and-drop development studio that runs in a browser and generates standard Java applications for deployment. The applications generated by WaveMaker perform client-side Ajax using the Dojo JavaScript library to communicate with server-side code written in Spring and Hibernate. It performs database reverse-engineering to build the application from the provided database. The WaveMaker studio has built-in support for HSQLDB, but you can use a variety of databases (including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.) to build your application. Database reverse-engineering is one of the ways to build the application, but it is not the only one. You can also use Web services, Twitter feeds, RSS, Youtube, etc.

WaveMaker comes in two flavors--Open Source Community Version and Enterprise Version. Enterprise Version is a paid version which provides enterprise features like LDAP support, advanced security support, Oracle support, etc. This article is based on my experiments with the community version of WaveMaker.

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Primefaces Link

http://www.primefaces.org/
Framework for web development

Welcome to PrimeFaces ShowCase
PrimeFaces is a lightweight open source component suite for Java
Server Faces 2.0 featuring 100+ rich set of JSF components. Additional
PrimeFaces Mobile module features a UI kit for developing mobile web
applications.

Rich set of components (HtmlEditor, Dialog, AutoComplete, Charts
and many more).
Built-in Ajax based on standard JSF 2.0 Ajax APIs.
Lightweight, one jar, zero-configuration and no required dependencies.
Native Ajax Push/Comet support.
Mobile UI kit to create mobile web applications for handheld
devices.(IPhone, Palm, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and more)
Skinning Framework with 30+ built-in themes and support for visual
theme designer tool.
Extensive documentation with 440+ pages of User's Guide.
Large, vibrant and active user community.
Developed with "passion" from application developers to
application developers.