Microsoft Excel is the most widely used spreadsheet application around the globe and in this post, we will see how to import data from an Excel file into a grid widget of WaveMaker Studio.  For reading the Excel file we will be using Apache POI libraries. Scope of this blog We will be creating a […]

Over the last year and a half, if there is one thing that the world of IT, DevOps & Cloud would not have missed discussing about, that would be Docker.  Docker is an app containerization technology that was developed by the erstwhile PaaS vendor DotCloud.  In fact, DotCloud was so enamored about the discovery that […]

Hackathon, Enterprise Apps, Cool Prizes, and more The WaveMaker Team will be heading to San Francisco's Apps World where over 10,000 attendees are expected to join for two days of high-level insight and discussion around enterprise apps. Apps World North America will be taking place at the Moscone Center, San Francisco on the 12th and […]

Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools and platforms offer agility and enable development teams and professional developers to jump start quickly onto a Project. Use of RAD methodology reduce the time and effort required to: a) evaluate the technology stack and frameworks b) design and implement boiler-plate CRUD code, SQL queries and UI-based forms c) prototype […]

Traditionally RAD has referred to Rapid Application Development, a way of building applications that contrasts with the more formal Waterfall model. As you would expect, RAD produced results quickly using tools that generated the application code from a high-level description or definition (in other words ‘software design specification’). Readjusting the design specification meant the application […]

WaveMaker hosts applications for thousands of users built using wavemakeronline.com. Keeping promise of free hosting upto 300 days wasn’t a very easy target. Even the smallest of VMs would not have been economical enough. This is when, a year and half ago, we explored containerization and saw that Docker was trying to provide very usable […]

A common request among WaveMaker Studio developers is to integrate third-party UI widgets inside WaveMaker Studio and make them available as drag-and-drop components.  This task becomes especially challenging when we consider the fact that the WaveMaker Studio uses AngularJS technology for defining its widgets and the third-party widget may be using another technology like jQuery. […]

The previous post in this series, discussed issues confronting an enterprise and how they translate into the need for building innovative applications, and here is an outline the sandbox that could meet this need. While it is easier to understand the need for innovative business applications, enabling their development in an enterprise is not easy. […]

Even as you begin to read this, you are probably already in the midst of a disruption in the industry and are wondering how to equip your company to meet the new challenge. 5 big reasons why enterprises face challenges 1. Customers are more demanding - The digital world is constantly redefining customer taste, trends, […]

Today, enterprises are facing tremendous challenges in the market that can only be addressed through business strategy innovation. Given that every new strategy needs to be powered by software, the time has come to analyze how their software applications are built and explore if newer technologies or methodologies can make that better. The intent of […]

The new release of WaveMaker Studio (version 7.1) expected to be released next week offers a bi-directional integration of WaveMaker projects with other IDEs. WaveMaker Studio projects can be exported and imported into any IDE of your choice i.e., Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, etc. providing an easy way for developers to utilize their familiar IDE for […]

WaveMakers, if you have been following our journey for the last few quarters, the WaveMaker Team was intensely working on taking WaveMaker to the next level. And we are proud to announce the latest milestone in that journey - the release of WaveMaker Enterprise. WaveMaker Enterprise is a complete software platform for rapidly developing and […]