CodeFutures Press Releases

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 Chief Architect, 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.

FireStorm/DAO 2.1 GA is available for immediate download and free evaluation from:

www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

FireStorm/DAO 2.1 is priced from $195 per developer. There are no runtime deployment licensing fees.

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures was founded with one aim in mind: to make it easier and cheaper to build and deploy enterprise-class database applications based on Java technology. CodeFutures' flagship product, FireStorm/DAO, dramatically reduces development time for Java applications requiring access to relational databases. FireStorm/DAO is built on Java, XML, and SQL standards and based on the Data Access Object design pattern.

Labels: Data Access Object, Database Access Tool, FireStorm/DAO