FireStorm/DAO 4.0-BETA RELEASE NOTES

The main new feature of this release is support for The Spring Framework. FireStorm/DAO will now provide options for generating DAO classes that use Spring JDBC and will also offer an option to generate a web application that uses Spring MVC.

The other new feature in this release is a new and improved SQL Script generator.

Please refer to the change log for a complete list of changes.

Local Documentation

The following PDF documentation is available:

User Guide

DAO Reference Manual

JPA Reference Manual

Architect Edition Reference Manual

Supported Platforms

Supported Databases and JDBC Drivers

FireStorm/DAO should work with most JDBC compliant databases and JDBC drivers. However, the following combinations are officially supported:

• MySQL 5.0.27 using MySQL Connector/J version 5.0.3
• Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 using SQLJ JDBC Driver version 10.2.0.2
• Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 using SQLJ JDBC Driver version 10.2.0.2
• Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 using SQLJ JDBC Driver version 11.1.0.6.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 using JDBC Driver version 1.1
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 using jConnect JDBC Driver version 6.0
• DB2 9 using DB2 Universal UDB JDBC Universal Driver version 9

Supported Application Servers

FireStorm/DAO should work with most J2EE compliant application servers. However, the following are offically supported:

• Apache Tomcat 5.5.20
• BEA WebLogic Server 9.2
• IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1
• JBoss 4.2.0 CR1

Supported Libraries

FireStorm/DAO offically supports the following libraries and specifications:

• EJB 2.1
• EJB 3.0 (JPA)
• Hibernate 3.2.2 GA
• Spring Framework 2.0.6

JDBC Driver Download Links

Due to licensing restrictions we are unable to ship JDBC drivers with FireStorm/DAO. Please use the following links to download the correct drivers.

• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Drivers
• MySQL JDBC Drivers
• Oracle JDBC Drivers
• Sybase JDBC Drivers