Presentation of the newly available Wakanda Platform at ParisJS

1. Wakanda Project
Full Open Source JavaScript platform
with Business Oriented DataStore

2. Wakanda
“The effort of mapping to a relational database
is around a third of programming effort - a cost
that continues during maintenance”
Martin Fowler
Author, speaker, and consultant on the design of enterprise software

3. End-to-End JavaScript Platform
Wakanda Server Browsers
REST
Server-side JavaScript Wakanda Ajax
JSON-RPC Framework
Business Oriented Datastore
Wakanda Studio
DataStore Model Designer Code Editor GUI Designer
SSJS Debugger
[Date and local infos]

4. Wakanda
User friendly APIs
• What ?
– HTTP and SSJS native APIs
– No SQL generation
• How ?
– Data Classes & Extended Classes
– References and indexes

5. Wakanda
Design your Model
company city
Employee Company City
firstName string name string zip
lastName string webSite string name
dateOfBirth Date ... ... country
... ... city City
company Company town city.name

6. Wakanda
Design your Model
company city
Employee Company City
firstName string name string zip
lastName string webSite string name
dateOfBirth Date ... ... country
... ... city City
company Company town city.name
ds.Employee.find("lastName = Doe").company.town

7. Wakanda
Demos

8. Wakanda
Running Fast
• Datastore Engine
• EntitySet caching
• Lazy loading
• Optimistic lock
• Image meta data indexing
• Fulltext search
• Custom Types

9. Wakanda
Open Server-Side JavaScript
• Client-side W3C / HTML5 APIs on the server:
– sessionStorage
– XMLHttpRequest
– Blob
– Workers, SharedWorkers, SystemWorkers
– Console, ...
• CommonJS Modules

10. Wakanda
‣ Wakanda Server
‣ Wakanda Studio
‣ Browsers
• WAF Widgets: HTML5 / CSS3
9 11 5 4
• Other versions can use WAF DataProvider/DataSource (code your own widgets)

11. Wakanda
Roadmap
• Scalabilité (replication / synchronization)
• More Widgets
+ Better Interaction with existing Frameworks
• Users & Groups management
• Remote Debugging
• Data Browser, Data Admin, Server Admin
• External Database Connectors

12. Wakanda
Contribute
• Coming soon: github repositories for:
– modules
– services modules
– widgets
– project templates
– studio JavaScript plugins
– Mixed tools (applescripts, batchs, drivers for other
languages, anything interacting with Wakanda...)

13. Wakanda
Public Access Tomorrow
Now !!!
wakanda.org
@wakandasoft
• Alexandre Morgaut & Thibaud Arguillère
– @amorgaut
– @ThibArg

14. Wakanda
Public Access Tomorrow
Now !!!
We are Hiring !!!
• Alexandre Morgaut & Thibaud Arguillère
– @amorgaut
– @ThibArg