PRESS RELEASE
CodeFutures Announces General Availability of FireStorm/DAO 2.1
[London, UK, April 19, 2004] CodeFutures has announced the General Availability of Release 2.1 of its FireStorm/DAO Java code generation tool. FireStorm/DAO generates code that provides a one-to-one mapping between Java objects and database tables. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' code generation approach include higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.
"FireStorm/DAO has been a huge productivity tool, saving us hundreds of hours on one project alone. However, its true value has been substantially reducing the amount of code our team needs to maintain over the life of the project." Says Cristopher Daniluk, Vice President of Technology for Ohio-based Web Hosting services provider Digital Services Network, Inc.
According to CodeFutures CTO, Andy Grove "It is well understood and accepted that generated code will always have fewer errors than hand-written code, due to the elimination of typos, human error, and so on. However, we also stress the technical quality of code generated by FireStorm/DAO". CodeFutures™ deep technical knowledge of Database Access Object technology means that the automatically generated persistence layer Java code is as good as the best hand-written Java code.
"As part of our evaluation, we did a comparison between the code generated by FireStorm/DAO™ and hand-written code we had already finished: it was almost identical." says Alex Shmelev, President, Alerois Corporation, California.
The new features in Release 2.1 are round trip engineering, full JSP client generation, Tomcat Web application generation, additional EJB code generation support, and BLOB and CLOB data type support. A description of the new features in FireStorm/DAO™ 2.1 is available at:
/library/CodeFuturesFireStormDAOrelease21.pdfFireStorm/DAO 2.1 GA is available for immediate download and free evaluation from:
/products/firestorm/download/FireStorm/DAO 2.1 is priced from $195 per developer. There are no runtime deployment licensing fees.
About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of Java software development products for advanced code generation. CodeFutures™ major customers are leaders in industries that use high technology for competitive advantage, including mobile telecommunications (Orange), television (BSkyB and BBC Technology), corporate banking (Lehman Brothers), military systems (BAE and Lockheed Martin), ticketing and fare collection systems (CTS), electronic funds transfer (BACS), and energy (LUKOIL). CodeFutures is a privately held company based in London, United Kingdom.
For more information, please contact:
Andy Grove
Chief Technology Officer
Code Futures Software, Ltd.
www.codefutures.com
Email: andy.grove@codefutures.com
FireStorm/DAO™ is a trademark of Code Futures Software, Ltd. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners.