Mark H. Recek

I recently found this great web application development environment called WaveMaker. This is a web-based application development interface.

So you install the software (runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), it runs it’s own web server service and allows you do do all the development within a web browser. You don’t even have to program a line of code to make a great AJAX based, web application that uses almost any database you want.

After you’ve created your web app then it will export to a WAR file so you can easily deploy the app on a Java application server like Tomcat.

I don’t do much actual programming, the extent of my experience is primarily MS Visual Basic. This is because I don’t like dealing with all the details of programming. I know what I want my program to do and I want an easy way to put together the intelligence and essential interface, then have the development environment take care of all the details for me, like user authentication, layout, making SQL statements, and making the app look and feel good.

I’ve been searching for a long time for an IDE like WaveMaker, and the closest thing I could find was Coghead, the only problem with this system is that it uses it’s own database and has to be hosted by Coghead. I need to tap into our existing database systems.

This is the EASIEST database-based web application development environment I have ever seen, and it’s open source!

Check out this WaveMaker screencast to see how easy it is to make a web app with no code.