How WaveMaker 7 will look (last Webinar briefing)

In my last entry, we did a briefing of last year on WaveMaker community.

I mentioned CloudJee's Webinar did on 19 of September, but, in this webinar, new WM 7 look was showed...what was talked on this webinar?

You click to see WaveMaker next: Webinar by CloudJee on 19 September 2013.

The webinar participants was: Samir Ghosh (CEO of Coudjee Inc), Vevek (WaveMaker Community Manager), Deepak (Director of Engineering , CloudJee Inc) and Sharad (Director of Engineering, WaveMaker).

First of all, there are introductions to CloudJee and Pramati companies, and a little history about WaveMaker companies movement.

About minute 5, they talk about features of 6.6.0 release they finished, and then, talk about new  WaveMaker Cloud hosting, available under WaveMaker 6.7.0, showing a little demo of How To deploy to WM Cloud.

Later Demo, they talk about Short term (actual 6 branch), and long term (next WM 7 branch). News showed about this new version, are things like:

• Capabilities of Collaboration, to work every team member on his tasks.
• Communication channels: Message boards, contextual comments and so on
• Release management and integration with GitHub.
• Internal Marketplace.
• Apps and templates,
• Widgets,
• Design artifacts..

And then, they pass to show how new WM UI will be. I suppose this screenshots are mockups not really a WM 7 working, and UI is susceptible to change. Sorry for WM 7 quality images, are taken from webinar video.

WaveMaker 6 "dashboard"

Wavemaker 7 Dashboard (mockup)

This can be the new Dashboard, where projects are shown. On WM7, description and some information about each project is showed, and a sidebar with latests updates to projects (this go for Collaboration).



WaveMaker 6 Project View ("blank project")

WaveMaker 7 Project View (mockup)

This are the Project View on Wm6 and WM7. Seems like in WM7 we will have Views instead Pages, and structuration of the UI is very different. Top Right there are information about user logged. I imagine this is for collaboration edition, where WM resides on a server. I hope this is not a signal thath WM needs mandatory to work on Cloud, because, local WaveMakers installations is a "must have". Speculating, I suppose this information is for Wavemaker Enterprise edition, and can be deployed on local server or Cloud. Maybe in video they talk about this, but sorry, my "english ear" is not very good :P

WaveMaker 6 Page Size

Next screenshots there aren't nothing to remark. is a Tablet view, like in WM 6 there are for change the default size of page to adapt widgets to correct resolution in tablets, mobile, and so on.

WaveMaker 6 File Explorer

 

WaveMaker 6 Page Size

 

On WM6 we don't have a file explorer at all. There are a "file explorer" but normally don't have sense to use it directly for anything but upload resources IMHO. On WM7, due to it's different nature, maybe a File Explorer has sense. On WM6, when you open Page, you open it's code too. Due to collaboration, in WM7, I imagine you can open View and code, indepently, and by different users.

 

 

 

Next comes to Service Explorer, very similar both. And next, activities, something new under new Collaboration concept capabilities.

 

WaveMaker 7 Activities (mockup)

 

Here you can see how other developer leaves a comment to another developer (I suppose under some code/view)

 

And finally the Release Schedule and Q&A, but about Q&A I don't understand very good. Maybe I will try to briefing on another post.

 

 

 

 

At this date, we have a 6.6.0 stable release, and a 6.7.0M3 (beta) release published. There are any Preview Release or 7.0 Beta available yet. It's suppose this month Closed Beta will be published to betatester.

 

I must admit WM 7 looks gorgeous, and new features are very interesting. For 2 people teams, where one is working on UI and other focus on code, it's very important, same for GitHub integration. Maybe, GitHub integration, means GIT integration, and we can for example integrate too to other repositories like BitBucket for example.

 

Bu I insist, communication with community it's important.