Project Exports

What is a project export

Project exports are a reduced zip file of your project source. They are all the files needed to move the project to another studio instance. All project specific included jar files and images are included. Jar files copied into the project by WaveMaker, generated class files and other generated files are not included in the export. This makes the export much smaller in size than the WAR files of a project. The export includes all source files needed to import and edit the project. The WAR file does not include all sources and is not suitable for editing projects.

How to generate a project export

To generate an export of a project, open the project in studio and use the export project option from the File menu. An alert indicating the generation of the zip file and its path is displayed upon completion

Project exports in Wavemaker 4

Exports and Databases

If a database is required to run the project and the recipient of the export does not have access to the database system, a separate dump or export of the database should also be provided. This database export should be generated using database specific tools such as pg_dump or mysql admin.

Importing an Export

There is not an import tool. To use an export, simply extract the zip file to the WaveMaker projects folder. The projects folder is by default in "my documents"WaveMaker on Windows and /Documents/WaveMaker folder on OSX.

The export contains the folder structure from "projects". That is, one should NOT create a sub directory beneath projects for the extract. Simply extract the zip file to the WaveMakerProjects directory.

Open studio or reload the studio browser window if WaveMaker is already running. The project will now be listed in the menu.

If the project contains any database, security or account information, you may have to update that information for the application to run correctly.

Projects that use databases often need the jdbc connection information updated. To update DB connection properties.

Select the Data Model in the Model Tree