WaveMaker 5.1 Makes Web Development Easier Than Ever

Community Contributions Help Make Open Source Product More Intuitive

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 29, 2009 -- WaveMaker (http://www.wavemaker.com)™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced version 5.1 of its WaveMaker development platform. This version incorporated a number of suggested enhancements from the 10,000-strong WaveMaker developer community.

"Feedback from our open source community drove much of the new functionality WaveMaker 5.1," said Derek Henninger, Vice President of Engineering for WaveMaker Software. "WaveMaker 5.1 simplifies the process for connecting widgets to data and provides extensive context-sensitive help - no more hunting through the documentation! We also added diagnostics so developers can see how application components are connected."

"WaveMaker is the best RAD product I have seen in the last 5 years," said Roberto Pavesi, CEO of GD Informatica.

Improvements to WaveMaker 5.1

*Diagnostics: A new Diagnostics tab shows all bindings within the project. Use this information

to follow the flow of activities within your application.

*Context sensitive help: Each widget property and event now has a ? next to it. Just click the ? to find out more about it.

*Simplified binding: Now there are three binding modes - Simple, Advanced, & Expression. Simple mode makes binding - you guessed it - simpler.

*Type validation flags: Green check marks show that bind source and destination match. Red Xs show that types do not match.

*Reorganized widget palette: Now it's easier to find the widget you're looking for.

*Streamlined Property Inspector: Get quicker access to the properties used most.

Download the Free WaveMaker Studio

WaveMaker Community Edition is available for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license. WaveMaker Enterprise Edition is available under a WaveMaker commercial license. Applications created using WaveMaker deploy as standard Java WAR files to Java servers such as IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss and Tomcat. With no proprietary code or languages involved, WaveMaker applications easily meet CIOs' architecture, security and data policies.

To download a copy of WaveMaker Community Edition, go to: http://www.wavemaker.com/downloads.

To learn more about WaveMaker Enterprise Edition, go to: http://www.wavemaker.com/product/how_to_buy.html.

About WaveMaker Software

WaveMaker Software™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, provides a faster, easier way for developers to build web applications for on-site or cloud deployment. WaveMaker is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Sippl Investments, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.wavemaker.com.

WaveMaker Software, WaveMaker Cloud Edition, Web Fast and CIO Safe are trademarks of WaveMaker Software. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.

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