Welcome

Welcome and thank you for joining the WaveMaker Developer Community. The WaveMaker Developer Community is the technical resource for anyone using WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio and WaveMaker generated ajax applications.

Getting Started

The WaveMaker community site has a range of resources. Our forums is where we discuss things. They're a treasure trove of searching if you can't find it in the docs. The wiki is home to our documentation as well as our wiki. Users comments are welcome on the documentation. The Dev is our content collaboration space in the wiki.

We invite you to say hi, upload your picture, fill out your forum profile or otherwise introduce yourself.

Code of Conduct

This is an collaborative community and we have a collaborative code of conduct.
Be considerate.
Be respectful.
Be collaborative.
Contribute and Participate.
Consult others when you disagree.
Step down considerately.

The Ubuntu code of conduct page articulates this philosophy nicely and is recommended reading. It is our philosophy here as well.

Getting Involved

Join the Wave. Contribute and participate in the community. Learn more at: Get Involved

Documentation

Documentation can be found via the header and side bar links throughout the site or at: http://doc.wavemaker.com

Documentation Spaces

The community wiki is used for product Documentation. This enables the doc to be updated regularly and more interactive. Login to the wiki using your community account to comment on the docs to help make them better.

Older versions of the doc are still available on the site.

The wiki uses 'spaces' to organize content. There are multiple space for documentation, including older versions.
Older versions of doc are available for users of older version and may have useful content for current users. Be careful when using older versions of doc. If content can not be found anywhere else, please comment accordingly so it can be migrated before the older docs are archived.

Overview of doc spaces

• wmdoc

This is the current product documentation. All top level links to doc, including doc.wavemaker.com point to this space. This space is the default space for the wiki. As such, 'wmdoc' will often not appear in the URL.

• PropertyDocumentation

This is the space for property documentation used by the in studio help system. The content can be viewed directly as well a from the studio '?' links.

• Documentation

The first version of wiki documentation. Content is generally for WM4.

• WM5_Docoumentation

A copy of Documentation that was specifically updated for WM5.

• Translated Docs

Documentation spaces translated into other languages reside in language specific spaces. The space name begins with the language code, for example: PT-Documentation.

Dev Wiki Community Doc

The wiki Dev space is a powerful feature of the community wiki. Like wikipedia, community members can directly contribute to its content. See get involved for more information on contributing to the wiki.

The Dev wiki often contains more in depth content. Most of the content is the result of forum discussions. Sections generally reference the forum post that generated the content.

Searching and Seeking

If you can't find what you need in the docs, don't despair, there are other resources to help.

Search

You can use the search with options to search one dev site resource at a time.

Tag Cloud

The wiki tag cloud lets you browse the wiki content by tags, while the wiki index page browses by page name, space and author.

Using the forums

Posting Questions

Got a question ? No worries, everyone was a newbie at one point in time.

Please take some time to research your issue before posting your question. Browse the docs, try our search or the wiki tag cloud.

Still no luck ? Post to our forums. The better the post, the better responses can be. Here's some guidelines for better postings.

Please be certain to abide by the Code of Conduct and the House Rules.

• Select the most appropriate forum for your question.
• Use a descriptive and meaningful subject. Avoid vague or informative subjects like 'please help'.
• Tags are required for all new threads. Please choose at least the version. Good tagging makes for better knowledge artifacts.
• Try to use one topic per thread. New comments to old topics are ok if it is directly related to the thread. For new threads, include links to any related doc, forum posts or pages that are useful to understanding your topic.
• Include all important factual details. The wm version, the db being used, and the deployment container (e.g. tomcat 6.0.20) are common examples. If using another open source project, please include a link to the project site if it is not a commonly known project or there could be any doubts.
• Use the code tags. In the forums code posted in between the tags <code> Your code here </code> will be displayed without formatting and be easier to read.
• Please post in English if you can unless in a local language specific section, it is the common language of this site. We do welcome other languages, but others may not be able to understand you correctly. If you can, please post in English in addition to your native/preferred language. We welcome contributions to enhancing the community experience for other languages. Additional language specific forums can be added. WaveMaker groups may be based in in other languages. New groups are welcome too.
• Please keep it tidy. Postings can get lost in the stream. Cross posting the same question to multiple threads doesn't help. Nobody likes finding their exact question with no response. Adding links between threads is a good way to connect questions with answers.
• Be nice. Do not criticize others for things like poor English or asking beginner questions. Do not insult or use profanity. See also code of conduct

Additional posting guidelines from other sites for consideration:
drupal.org

Posting Code

The forums support some html in posts and code snips may be mangled as a result.

Small code snips can be posted with the code tag and will be presented as code when viewed.

<code>
Your code here
</code>

Larger code samples should be posted as file attachments.

Posting Projects

Projects are a great way to exchange knowledge. Project exports are the best way to share your project. Exports are much smaller than zipping the project folder as it remove the runtime the jars files from the package.

Posting Data Models

If you want others to be able to see data in a project, use an HSQLDB db.

Exports include the projects data model(s), from which the imported schema can be observed. The data model schema is rarely exactly the same as the RDBMS schema. No database data in is included in the project export other than HSQLDB databases.

The database schema can usually be exported to the same RDBMS type on another host for testing, however not all db schemas can be recreated from project exports alone. Some issues may require the rdbms schema and/or functional data services to reproduce.

An export of the database and/or database schema may be required for some issues. For example, issues specific to data values may require an dump of the database schema and problems importing db schema generally require the db schema to reproduce.

Database exports are generally best created using database specific backup or dump tool.

Notifications

Under 'My Account' on the forums you can configure your forum notification preferences.
There are three auto subscribe options. Auto-subscribe to new content that you create, to items that you update and to items that you comment on.
Other options include subscription by forum and/or by tags

Dev Community Accounts

The WaveMaker Dev community uses a single account system. Use the drupal forums to create and manage your dev site account. Account management, including changing your password and profile management is done via your account link from the forums.

Can't get in to the wiki even though you have a forum account ? Accounts with forum ids prior to 12108 require us to manually migrate your account. Let us know if that is you.

See also:
Registation,
Password recovery

Enterprise Users

WaveMaker enterprise users are welcome and encouraged to participate in the community. However the forums is not support. Subscribers unsatisfied with forum responses must contact WaveMaker support if they wish to pursue the issue further. See your support welcome letter for more information about using support services.

Enterprise evaluators should contact their sales contact.

About you

In your post or in your profile. Using a particular data source or package? Let us know about that too. You might find more users of that package than you think. Find your profile, under My Account, Personal

Contact Us

We like to hear from you. Tell us what you like, what you don't like or suggestions you may have. Mail us at community @ wavemaker.com or start a forum discussion thread.

Legal Stuff

House Rules

All posts and content are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of WaveMaker Software, Inc or anyone else.

We can not and do not condone the posting of obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening or illegal content.

We reserve the right to remove, edit or delete any content for any reason at any time.

Spam and Spammers

Spam (unsolicited adverts), adult or illegal content found on the site will be deleted and the poster blocked from accessing the site. WaveMaker reserves the right to (and we will) delete spam and to block spammers.

The perverse efforts of spammers and script kiddies require constant vigilance. We reserve the right to block access for any reason. Posting spam is a sure fire way to get blocked.

If your account has been mistakenly blocked, we do apologize. Please contact us at community @ wavemaker.com and simply convince us your real person, not a script kiddie, spambot, or spammer.

Your Privacy

Your privacy is important. The WaveMaker privacy policy can be viewed at http://wavemaker.com/legal/privacy.html