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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By : Edward Callahan
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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By: Edward Callahan

Overview of this book

Developers of all levels can now easily develop custom, responsive, and rich web application clients with secure, scalable servers utilizing relational databases and RESTful services using WaveMaker Studio. Whether you need a departmental business application or a form application for your weekend club, this book will show you how to design, develop, and deploy professional grade web applications with WaveMaker. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications, even if you are not a programmer. If you need to build a data-driven web application, but you only know ‘enough to be dangerous,' you need this book. This book examines every angle of using WaveMaker to build applications, from dissecting examples to customizing, deploying, and debugging your own applications. This book enables the non-professional programmer to become comfortable not only with using WaveMaker Studio itself, but also with the artefacts produced by the studio as well as the runtime and services provided by the WaveMaker framework. You will learn everything, from how customize the user experience with JavaScript and CSS to integrating with custom Java services and the Spring Framework server-side. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker 6.5 is packed with examples, code samples, screenshots, and links to equip you to be successful with WaveMaker Studio.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Styling the Application
7
Working with Databases
8
Utilizing Web Services
Index

About the Reviewers

Michael Kantor was a Lead Developer on the WaveMaker JavaScript framework for four years, during which time he evolved both the JavaScript framework and WaveMaker Studio's UI capabilities. In particular, he comes from a background in mobile applications, and implemented much of the mobile support in WaveMaker in his copious free time. He is now building JavaScript frameworks at www.servicemax.com (sadly, not an open source framework).

Arjunkumar Krishnamoorthy is a Lead Engineer with Causeway Technologies in Bangalore, India. He is well versed in Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Backbone.js, and others. Arjun has also contributed to open source projects. He is passionate about programming, research, and open source technologies.

Jörg Lew works as a Senior Consultant at VMware, focusing on automation and integration of datacenters. He used WaveMaker in several customer projects, especially to build web-based frontends for automation solutions based on VMware vCenter™ Orchestrator. You can find some of these stories published on his blog, www.vcoportal.de. In his spare time, he lectures on Internet Technology and Java Development at the University of Applied Sciences in Kempten, Germany.

Jörg lives in the beautiful area of Allgaeu in the south of Germany.

Eliecer Daza Parra has been a web developer since 2005. He has ample experience in Java, Python, PHP, and jQuery. He has been working with WaveMaker for over 10 years since the release of its third version. He has more than 8 years of experience as a Java developer. He has been a developer of software for information management and customer relationship management (CMR), health promoting enterprises (EPS), public transportation, and education companies in both the private and public sectors. For the past two years, Eliecer has been working as a Python developer.

Among his main areas of interest are the development of Linux, Python, Android, and Google services. He has a huge interest in nurturing blog spaces about Linux administration and programming.

Giuseppe Luigi Punzi has more than 15 years of experience as a professional developer, having skills in Object Pascal, Oval, OPL, Visual Basic, .NET, Java, and others languages/platforms.

He has a passion for new technologies and methodologies, and is an active WaveMaker community member.

He is a cofounder and consultant in Komenco IT Solutions. Apart from other services, his company is specialized in outsourcing and custom-made software.