WaveMaker Reviews & Product Details

Rapid Application Development in a browser and its WYSIWG

No IDE required

Industry Standard Server technologies (java, docker)

Latest Client WEB technologies (HTML5, Angular-JS, CSS, javascript)

Can deploy WEB / Mobile Hybrid apps

Connect multiple data sources on one page (DATABASE, WEB services, etc)

Built in production level ready CSS themes

Built in template interfaces to popular 3rd party apps (FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter)

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The best implementation / support team I have worked with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For myself coming from a different platform the learning curve was slow at the start only due to that the product is using cutting edge technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Highly abstracted front-end and back-end support. Great templating features promoting reuse. Browser based and no third party plugins required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really nothing to dislike! - Try it! - You should have a simple app running in less than 1 day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How simple it was. As administrator I didn't have to ask too many questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting to multiple windows wasn't the easies thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wavemaker has the best tech support I have ever seen. And the product itself is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it is "Cloud Based", and that I must rely on an internet connection to work on my project. If not for that, I would consider Wavemaker a perfect fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of design and the online IDE are pretty slick.

Easy of integration of data services is amazing, would rival Servoy or File Maker.

I first looked at this when looking for a viable alternative to Servoy.

The data layer was was pricked my interest.

Its very easy to build back end data services to connect with virtually any database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its taken a long time to get to a usable state.

I have been playing with this for over two years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I first started using WaveMaker (6.7.0) over a year ago. I wanted to make some improvements to a in-house webapp a co-worker developed. I was unfamiliar with and had little experience with application development tools like WaveMaker, but I found it incredibly easy to learn. After a year of learning and using WaveMaker, I can say that I'm pretty familiar with how everything works and have even created new apps from scratch with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a lot of little things I don't like about WaveMaker. For one, it was incredibly slow when using it on my computer (Windows-based). If I had a more powerful computer, I think this would allow me to develop faster and not have to wait for screens and fields to load within the app. Another cause of this slowness was probably by own doing. I tried to create a huge webapp using just one page. This meant that all the javascript, layers, panels, fields, etc. had to be loaded when the one page of my app loaded. This was noticeable when trying to make a simple change to a field. I have since made the app more robust and split out layers/screens onto their own separate pages. This has definitely sped things up.

The other problems were related to LiveVariable views. Everytime I updated the Java code or Database, it removed some of the fields from my LiveVariable Views, which in turned removed columns from my DojoGrids. This is very annoying. Similarly, updates to my database (MySQL) usually requires me to reimport the entire database into my WaveMaker project again. I had to also add back in my HQL quieries. Again, very annoying.

I hope some of these things have been fixed in the more recent versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Management is super simplified when you don't have to worry about a zillion physical connections. Being able to scale down a datacenter by moving 10 cabinets worth of stuff into about 3 is absolutely brilliant.

There's also the ability to easily scale up.

Need more compute? - add more hosts or (just vMotion your machines to another host host) upgrade existing hosts!

Need more storage? - Add on to your SAN or if you're using vSan, just put more storage on your hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial investment for licensing can be kind of rough but even compared to Hyper-V's free model, it's totally worth it.

Performance can still be a challenge when using shared storage for applications requiring a lot of IOps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.