The client is a JavaScript client that runs in a modern browser. This means that most of the client, the HTML and DOM nodes that the browser interfaces with specifically, are created by JavaScript at runtime. The application is styled using CSS, and we can use HTML in our applications. However, we don't use HTML to define buttons and forms. Instead, we define components, such as widgets, and set their properties. These component class names and properties are used as arguments to functions that create DOM nodes for us.
To do this, WaveMaker uses the Dojo Toolkit, http://dojotoolkit.org/. Dojo, as it is generally referred to, is a modular, cross-browser, JavaScript framework with three sections. Dojo Core provides the base toolkit. On top of which are Dojo's visual widgets called Dijits. Finally, DojoX contains additional extensions such as charts and a color picker. DojoCampus' Dojo Explorer, http://dojocampus.com/explorer/, has a...