Press Releases

FireStorm/DAO 4.0 BETA Program Announced

2008-03-03T14:35:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announced the BETA program for FireStorm/DAO 4.0. The BETA version of the product is available for download on the CodeFutures Web site.

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.

"Without doubt, support for the Spring Framework is the most requested new feature in FireStorm/DAO ever" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

CodeFutures Reference Customer List Reaches Over Three Hundred Enterprises

2007-12-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announced that its customer list is now over 300 enterprises, including many enterprises with site licenses for all Java developers and ISVs that have embedded FireStorm/DAO inside their product offerings.

CodeFutures products are used in many vertical markets, such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government (Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail (MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).

A partial list of customers is available on the CodeFutures site.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

CodeFutures Updates FireStorm/DAO

2007-11-13T13:58:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announce the General Availability of FireStorm/DAO 3.2.1. The maintenance release provides the general public with access to a range of feature enhancements and bug fixes that have been provided over the previous few months customers.

"We're very happy to continue to consolidate all the recent product improvements provided to our supported customers in a new maintenance release" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

About FireStorm/DAO

FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.
FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here: http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here: http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

FireStorm/DAO 3.2 Launched

2007-08-03T14:08:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announce the General Availability of FireStorm/DAO 3.2. The new feature of this release is support for EJB 3.0 and the Java Persistence API (JPA).

Additional new features include:

FireStorm/DAO is now compatible with Windows Vista
An extra "Navigation" field has been added to the foreign key editor in the user interface to allow users to control the direction of generated relationships when generating EJB 3.0 / JPA source code. Valid values are "Unidirectional, Parent -> Child", "Unidirectional, Child -> Parent", and "Bidirectional".
The JDBC Driver and Data Source configuration have been re-implemented to improve usability.
When defining Table Finders or Custom SQL DAOs, it is now possible to escape colon symbols with the backslash '\' character to stop FireStorm/DAO from interpreting them as parameter names.
Improvements have been made to the way in which FireStorm/DAO loads custom code generation providers that have been developed using the Architect Edition of the product. It is no longer necessary to specify the provider class names in the configuration file as FireStorm/DAO now scans all jar files in the jars directory at startup and automatically attempts to load any classes that implement the Provider interface.

"We are very happy with the new release - it provides a good combination of new features and improvements to existing features. We expect a very positive reaction from FireStorm/DAO users because everything in the new release is based on customer feedback" explains Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.
FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.
Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here: http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/ FireStorm/DAO is available for download here: http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

CodeFutures Joins Software Pipelines Alliance

2007-05-05T14:06:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures has joined the Software Pipelines Alliance.

Software Pipeliens offer a new concurrent processing methodology that provides a simple way for business applications to implement concurrency while maintaining order of execution priorities and simplicity of application development.

About The Software Pipelines Alliance

The Software Pipelines Alliance is a group of software industry vendors and end users that have joined together to promote the use of Software Pipelines to solve performance and scalability problems, with a particular emphasis developing applications that take advantage of multi-core processors.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

FireStorm/DAO 3.2 BETA

2007-03-22T14:03:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announced the BETA program for FireStorm/DAO 3.2. The new release provides support for EJB 3.0 and the Java Persistence API (JPA), Windows Vista compatibility, enhanced support for foreign keys, JDBC Driver and Data Source configuration usability improvements, Table Finders and Cusotmer SQL DAO improvements, and also improvements have been made to the way in which FireStorm/DAO loads custom code generation providers that have been developed using the Architect Edition of the product.

"The new release provides so many new features that we plan to run a comprehensive BETA program to give as many FireStorm/DAO users as possible an opportunity to provide feedback" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures. FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions.

FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.
Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here: http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/
FireStorm/DAO is available for download here: http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

CodeFutures Announces Support for Hibernate JPA

2007-02-14T04:58:00.000-08:00

FireStorm/DAO 3.2 BETA is now available for download from the CodeFutures Web Site. This new release contains many bug fixes as well as adding support for the Java Persistence API (JPA) when generating code for Hibernate. It is still possible to generate native Hibernate DAO as in previous releases.

"We've had a lot of success with our native Hibernate DAO support in previous FireStorm/DAO releases, but since the introduction of JPA, we've had customer demand for enhanced Hibernate support. We're very pleased to provide this." says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

The BETA program is expected to last for several weeks, with FireStorm/DAO 3.2 planned for generally availability in April 2008.

About FireStorm/DAO
FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures
CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

CodeFutures' Partner Rogue Wave Launches SDO Database Product

2006-12-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announce that its partner Rogue Wave Software has launched HydraSDO for Databases.

HydraSDO™ for Databases enables relational data to be accessed in both traditional application architectures and SOA by allowing relational data to be accessed and modified using the SDO Application Programming Interface (API). This eliminates the need to write Structured Query Language (SQL) code, a time consuming step in the development process. HydraSDO for Databases provides support for leading databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, and DB2. HydraSDO for Databases also includes tools to reverse engineer existing databases from an SQL script or a live database connection, such as Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), and generate the data access code.

HydraSDO components provide consistent and easy-to-use access to enterprise data sources, making them available through the standardized Service Data Object (SDO) API. After data has been exposed by the simple XML-style SDO interface, it can be used by any application as a real-time data service. HydraSDO data components consist of HydraSDO for Databases, which automate the creation of high performance, service oriented data services in Java and or C++, each optimized for the data source it supports.

Rogue Wave® HydraSDO is an implementation of the SDO specification, created by the Open SOA collaboration, of which Rogue Wave Software is a member. HydraSDO components can work either independently or as an integrated component of the Rogue Wave® HydraAgent Runtime, which empowers IT architects and professional developers to achieve order-of-magnitude performance and throughput improvements through concurrent processing. In combination, Rogue Wave HydraAgent Runtime and HydraSDO components allow for increased flexibility and productivity for developers. They are part of Rogue Wave® Hydra Suite, the first generally available high-performance SOA development environment that supports and complements key concepts of the Service Component Architecture or SCA specification, which incorporates service data objects as a key foundational technology.

CodeFutures Joins OSOA

2006-08-04T14:45:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announced that it has joined the Open Service Oriented Architecture Consortium.

The Open SOA Collaboration represents an informal group of industry leaders that share a common interest: defining a language-neutral programming model that meets the needs of enterprise developers who are developing software that exploits Service Oriented Architecture characteristics and benefits.

CodeFutures Launches FireStorm/DAO 3.1

2006-04-11T14:20:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announce that FireStorm/DAO 3.1 is now generally available. The new release improves the Hibernate DAO support by adding support for Java Persistence API (JPA).

"We added this feature in response to customer demand. The JPA specification had a painful birth but it's clear from customer requests that there's now real market demand." says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures.

About FireStorm/DAO

FireStorm/DAO is a database access tool that adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is based on the Data Access Object design pattern and is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.

CodeFutures' products are used in hundreds of companies such as Turner Broadcasting, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Walt Disney, Kraft Foods, T-Systems, FedEx, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lockheed Martin, Suzuki, EMC, Macromedia, and Siemens.

Java Developer Survey Results Announced

2006-03-29T13:24:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is pleased to announce the results of a developer survey on SOA usage and SOA performance.

The survey results can be summarized as:

-Three quarters of enterprises using Java are using or planning to use Service Oriented Archiectures

-Over 30% have scalability problems and 56% have performance problems due to bottlenecks

-The vast majority of Java developers surveyed believe they have high performance requirements

-About one third of the Java developers surveyed had groups using C++ as well and Web Services technology is still relevant for C++ development

Survey Data Quality

The survey sent out to about 7,000 Java developers – primarily in the US and Europe (Asian/South America/African developers were not surveyed, unless they were CodeFutures customers). There were about 500 responders, which is consistent with other items in CodeFutures' newsletters. An iPod nano was given as a prize. The survey profile is not typical of the overall market profile a few ways:

-FireStorm/DAO is commercial software, so it does not attract many developers looking for free, open source software, which is a substantial part of the overall Java market

-FireStorm/DAO, as a productivity tool, attracts a lot of consultants and system integrations – who would use a wider variety of technologies than in house development teams

-no attempt was made to make the survey anything more than a 'straw pole' of CodeFutures' developers. There was no demographic information collected on the responders. So developers from large and small companies, Europe and the US, were all given equal weight, and there's no way to give a breakdown.

The survey results are discussed in detail here.

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.

CodeFutures Launches Early Access Program for FireStorm/SDO

2006-01-31T13:14:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is launching a new product called FireStorm/SDO based on the Service Data Object Application Programming Interface (SD0 API).

"CodeFutures has actually been looking at the SDO API since it was first published in late 2003" says Andy Grove, CodeFutures' Chief Architect .

" CodeFutures only decided to launch a product based on the SDO API after it emerged late last year that SDO would be a major part of the new Service Component Architecture specification that has backing from several industry leaders." says PJ Murray, CodeFutures VP Marketing.

CodeFutures is starting out by providing database access through the SDO API. FireStorm/SDO will have the key advantage of providing very good code generation tools. That means developers can get started with SDO without using the SDO API directly and can use the generated code as an ideal tutorial for learning how to use the SDO API.

CodeFutures is shipping the first Early Access version of FireStorm/SDO this week to a customer that will use it to gain a significant performance boost.

At that point, CodeFutures will work with its partner Rogue Wave Software to roll out the EA during February on a phased basis (so we can handle the support load while continuing to develop).

CodeFutures plans to provide everyone that applies for the EA program will be provided access in February, prior to any pubic BETA program in March.

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. CodeFutures' database access tool, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.

CodeFutures Software Forms Alliance with Rogue Wave Software

2005-12-15T04:48:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures Software has announced a strategic alliance with Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), focused on the creation of complementary development products for the recently-announced Rogue Wave Hydra framework.

"Rogue Wave Software has built a great reputation with professional software developers over the past 15 years. We're very happy to be closely associated with one of the software industrys most respected vendors of products for enterprise application development," said PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software.

The alliance activities include:

CodeFutures will enhance its current FireStorm/DAO product to support Rogue Wave Hydra.
CodeFutures and Rogue Wave Software will also jointly develop additional product components/tools that will be compatible with Rogue Wave Hydra. The new components will be targeted at professional developers that are building enterprise applications in Java and Service-Oriented Architectures.
CodeFutures and Rogue Wave Software will engage in joint marketing and sales activities.

"We are very pleased to be working with CodeFutures Software. We hope that future jointly-developed products will be as successful as its popular FireStorm/DAO tool. We're particularly excited about the expertise CodeFutures can bring to Rogue Wave Software's entry into the professional Java developer market," explained Cory Isaacson, president, Rogue Wave Software.

"Rogue Wave Hydra is a truly innovative solution that addresses the critical scalability and performance problems that many large enterprises are experiencing using traditional approaches like server farms. We're very happy to be associated with Rogue Wave Hydra," said Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

About Rogue Wave Software

Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), provides reusable software components and services to professional developers for enterprise-class, high-performance application development. Today, thousands of developers at some of the world's leading companies have used Rogue Wave products to develop mission-critical applications. Rogue Wave Software operates throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.roguewave.com.

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures' products are used by corporate Java software programmers for Java persistence in sectors such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government (Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail (MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).

CodeFutures Launches FireStorm/DAO 3.0

2005-11-30T04:45:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures has announced the General Availability of Release 3.0 of its award-winning FireStorm/DAO tool that makes software developers more productive by generating the Java code for accessing databases. CodeFutures' code generation approach cuts development costs through higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs.

"CodeFutures emphasizes the importance of a technology-independent Java persistence tier based on the Data Access Object (DAO) Core J2EE Design Pattern. FireStorm/DAO is unique in offering multiple Java persistence technologies (EJB CMP, JDBC DAO, and Hibernate DAO) in the same product. This means that CodeFutures can offer advice to customers on the best Java persistence technology for an application, rather than promote a single technology as the perfect solution for all applications." explains Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software

"The primary benefit of FireStorm/DAO is that it immediately cuts development costs. Database access code can be produced about twenty times faster with FireStorm/DAO, which cuts the overall development costs by about one third." says PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Ships Apache Derby with its Database Access Tool

2005-11-29T04:42:00.000-08:00

CodeFutures is shipping the Apache Derby, the open source version of the IBM Cloudscape database, with its award-winning FireStorm/DAO tool that generates the Java persistence code for accessing databases. Shipping Apache Derby allows CodeFutures to include demonstration applications that are ready to use. Apache Derby and IBM Cloudscape are full-featured, robust, small-footprint databases. CodeFutures' code generation approach provides faster and cheaper application development, higher quality applications, and more predictable and consistent results. CodeFutures approach ensures that the focus of software developers is solving business problems.

"We needed to ship a database with a very small footprint and zero administration with FireStorm/DAO so users could try some demonstration applications and have a local development database ready for use. We had already added support for Apache Derby and IBM Cloudscape due to strong customer demand, so there was no additional work to ship it with FireStorm/DAO." says PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software.

"CodeFutures' new Firestorm/DAO release can help developers quickly and easily design Java applications for the Apache Derby and Cloudscape databases" says Grant Hutchinson, manager IBM database server marketing. "This capability will help to build on the momentum that Derby and Cloudscape currently have within the open source market."

"Apache Derby is based on JDBC and ANSI SQL standards and has the features of much larger database systems. That makes it ideal an ideal database to use locally for development and transition to production environments. Of course, there is always the option of switching to IBM Cloudscape with professional support." says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Announces Technology Partnership with seeMore Technologies

2005-09-30T04:40:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures has integrated its FireStorm/DAO data persistence tool with the seeMore virtual database platform. The result is that enterpises can very quickly develop applications that require data from multiple data sources.

"The seeMore virtual database approach allows the real data to stay in situ and be accessed in real-time. There is no data warehouse with data replication problems. For Java developers using FireStorm/DAO, a vitual database looks and feels like a normal database." says PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software

"FireStorm/DAO really impressed me in the way it removed the complexity of working with Java Data Access Objects and provided an immediate ROI. It's a Java developer's dream tool." explains Phillip Carruthers, CEO, seeMore Technologies.

"The seeMore virtual database technology is remarkable in the way that it really looks and feels like a real database, despite the fact that the data can be spread out throughout an enterprise. The product is so well designed that it was very easy to integrate FireStorm/DAO with it." explains Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

Trend Updates Financial Applications Using FireStorm/DAO

2005-08-18T04:35:00.000-07:00

Trend S.p.a., the Italian leader in banking and financial software applications, has chosen FireStorm/DAO to provide its Java persistence architecture. FireStorm/DAO makes Java software developers more productive by automatically generating Java source code for accessing relational databases.

Trend's customer base was built up over a long period, with COBOL being the primary programming language. While Trend's customers were satisfied with their solutions, Trend recognized the need to move to a more modern programming language and development environment.

Walter Scalvini, Senior Software Engineer, explains "Many of our applications were originally written in COBOL. However, we saw need to update older software modules and to develop new applications using up-to-date technologies. Our choice was the Java language and J2EE architecture."

One important issue that Trend focused on was that any new or updated applications needed to interact seamlessly with the data in existing applications. Scalvini explains "Modeling and building new applications must rely on pre-existent data models. There are a lot of databases with hundreds of tables with dozens of columns and relationships. So it was very important to be able to choose a data access architecture for all these data structures."

Andy Grove, CodeFutures' Chief Architect, says "Companies now have massive amounts of data locked in existing databases, often scattered throughout the enterprise. It's essential that companies have a good strategy for realizing the business value locked in their databases and that means a good, future-proof data access architecture."

Trend analyzed its requirements regarding data access architecture, which would be used for all future applications. Scalvini identified Trend's selection criteria: "Our key requirements were productivity, standardizable approach, quality, consistency, and abstraction."

Trend decided to use Data Access Objects for its architecture, because it is a Core J2EE Design Pattern. For Java persistence technology, Trend wished to remain flexible and choose the most appropriate technology for each solution. Trend carefully examined the Java persistence products available on the market. Scalvini explains the results of the competitive analysis: "After many tests and audits, we chose Firestorm/DAO code generator. Among all the products evaluated, Firestorm/DAO Architect Edition is surely the product that gives us the highest level of freedom, at the same time providing all characteristics we needed".

"It's always a pleasure to win the confidence of a customer, and that's especially true in a competitive situation when the customer is very thorough" says PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software.

The benefits of FireStorm/DAO identified by Trend were:

Productivity
Writing all necessary code by hand for a typical financial application with very large databases would take months of work, whereas FireStorm/DAO produces instant results.

Standards, simplicity, and efficiency
Code generation based on the Data Access Object core J2EE design pattern, a well defined and accepted architecture.

Quality
Generated software that is high quality, easy to read and modify, and bug free.

Consistency
Class structure, methods, parameters, and naming conventions are automatically managed by code generator using templates.

Abstraction
Flexibility in changing generation options, driven by application needs, and choosing the most appropriate persistence management technique (EJB, JDO, Hibernate DAO, JDBC).

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Reports Strong Sales Growth for Database Access Tool

2005-07-13T04:11:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures, the database access tool vendor, today announced that sales almost doubled in the second quarter of 2005 compared with the first quarter of 2005. The revenue increase was due to sales of team licenses to major corporations and increased interest in CodeFutures' product offering due to the addition of important new functionality that broadens its target market.

CodeFutures continued to add new high profile reference customers, including FedEx Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, the US Department of Defense, Alliance Data Systems Corporation, South Carolina Department of Corrections, First American Corporation, and Mitre Corporation.

"We are particularly happy to see a large sales increase that is directly a result of a new sales strategy. The CodeFutures sales profile has changed significantly. Team licenses to large corporations now represent over 80% of the value of sales" says Dan Froelich, Vice President of Sales, CodeFutures Software.

"We started rolling out our third major product release during the second quarter, which resulted in a lot of new product evaluations. Our product strategy continues to focus on delivering a unique offering. By adding support for the Hibernate Java persistence framework, CodeFutures increased its lead in offering broadest support for the various Java persistence technologies" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

"The success of the preview of our third major product release leads us to anticipate continued commercial success as we plan the marketing launch in July and August" says PJ Murray, CMO, CodeFutures Software.

About FireStorm/DAO

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Launches Hibernate DAO Tool

2005-06-30T02:48:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures has updated its FireStorm/DAO Java persistence tool to provide the option of automatically generating Hibernate Java persistence code that would otherwise have to be manually written. CodeFutures' approach cuts costs by dramatically increasing developer productivity and improving code quality.

Hibernate is an increasingly popular open source Java persistence framework supported by JBoss Inc. "We've added Hibernate support due to customer demand. Many of CodeFutures customers are starting to experiment with Hibernate but want to keep the cost savings provided by FireStorm/DAO" says Dan Froelich, VP Sales, CodeFutures Software. The objectives of the new release of FireStorm/DAO go beyond providing an additional option for existing FireStorm/DAO users. Andy Grove, CodeFutures' Chief Architect, explains "Hibernate has gained a solid foothold among pioneering Java developers. Hopefully the usability and productivity provided by FireStorm/DAO will help Hibernate reach the wider, more mainstream Java developer community."

FireStorm/DAO is a Java Code Generator that imports existing database schemas and then generates a complete persistence tier based on any of the following Java persistence technologies:

Hibernate DAO (new in this release)
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

FireStorm/DAO generates Java source code and configuration files that developers would otherwise have to write by hand. When generating Hibernate code (without DAOs), FireStorm/DAO produces Hibernate persistent classes and a Hibernate mapping file (*.hbm.xml) for each database table.

FireStorm/DAO generates Java persistence code that is compliant with the Data Access Object(DAO) core J2EE design pattern. FireStorm/DAO can now also generate native persistence code for Object Relational Mapping (ORM) products such as Hibernate. Grove explains that "CodeFutures is unique in emphasizing the importance of a technology-independent Java persistence tier based on a key J2EE design pattern. Other Java persistence tools are focused on a single Java technology such as stand-alone Hibernate, rather than a more sustainable long term Java persistence architecture."

"FireStorm/DAO is unique in offering multiple Java persistence technologies in the same product. We offer EJB CMP, JDBC, JDO, and now Hibernate. This means that CodeFutures can offer advice to customers on the best Java persistence technology for a specific application, rather than promote a specific Java persistence technology as the perfect solution for all applications." says PJ Murray, VP Product Management, CodeFutures Software.

About FireStorm/DAO

FireStorm/DAO adopts a pragmatic approach of generating Java source code for data persistence that is a direct mapping of a particular relational database schema. It is also possible to define complex multi-table queries and to leverage existing database logic contained within stored procedures.

FireStorm/DAO is available in Enterprise, Architect, and OEM editions. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition includes the source code for the Java code generation templates. The code generation templates are written in Java, which means that Java developers have a very short learning curve before they can start customizing the code generation.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures FireStorm/DAO Accelerates Carrera Communications' Telecoms Application Development By 30%

2005-04-28T02:03:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures has accelerated telecommunications application development for Carrera Communications with its award-winning FireStorm/DAO database access tool that generates the Java persistence code for accessing databases using the Data Access Object design pattern.

Carrera Communications offers local and long distance phone services to residential and small business customers. To provide the best possible customer service, Carrera Communications have developed online systems such as order processing, online payments, customer service help and live chat capabilities. Because telecommunications customer support systems are data intensive, database access is a key component of any new system that is developed. By automating development of data access, Carrera Communications has reduced development times, thereby providing costs savings and quicker response times to new business requirements.

"FireStorm /DAO helped us to reduce the development time by around 30%. We have a lot of medium sized databases (MySQL, SQL Server) and writing the database access code for all tables used to be a nightmare. Using FireStorm/DAO, writing database access code is a breeze." Vinny George, IT Operations Lead, Carrera Communications

"The telecommunications industry is well-known to be data-intensive. We're very pleased that Carrera Communications is using CodeFutures FireStorm/DAO in so many mission critical applications" says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About Carrera Communications

Carrera Communications offers local and long distance phone services to residential and small business customers, but the offerings don't stop there. We also offer internet service, voice mail service and low cost calling cards with high quality connections and no connect fees. Our goal is to provide our customers with great savings and high quality service. To tackle this goal we have developed online systems such as order processing, online payments, customer service help and live chat capabilities. Founded in the later part of 1998, Carrera Communications simply began by offering long distance phone service to residential and small business customers. By the end of 1999, we had expanded our product offerings to include local phone services to residential and small business customers. www.callcarrera.com

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Continues Rapid Sales Growth in First Quarter 2005

2005-04-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures, the database access tool vendor, today announced results for the first quarter of 2005, confirming the recent increasing momentum in sales. CodeFutures had its best quarter to date, with over 50% quarterly sales growth and more than 10 times more Q12004 sales. For the first time, CodeFutures had significant volumes of new customers purchasing Architect Edition licenses. This is significant for CodeFutures because its sales cycle to date has involved customers initially purchasing Enterprise Edition licenses and then upgrading later.

CodeFutures continued to add high profile customers in Q1, such as Kraft Foods, Inc. CodeFutures has also made progress in new markets, such as signing Technology Reply in Italy and Trend S.p.a. High profile new government sector customers include the Deptartment of National Defence - Canadian Forces and the Government of Singapore's Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technology.

"What's particularly good about CodeFutures sales is that February 2005 was the best month on record. We hope that we can continue to avoid the traditional software industry sales cycle with most sales are made in the last few weeks of the quarter." says PJ Murray, VP Product Management, CodeFutures Software.

CodeFutures continues to make market progress with information technology consultancies using FireStorm/DAO to gain competitive advantage and reduce costs, including BT Applied Technologies and ENSCO, Inc. "Obviously, we're keen to promote the use of FireStorm/DAO within IT consultancies because they tend to provide good feedback about using FireStorm/DAO with a wide range of third-party databases and application severs." says Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:
http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/download/

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures Adds IBM Cloudscape and Apache Derby Support to Database Access Tool

2005-04-12T01:48:00.000-07:00

CodeFutures has announced support for the IBM Cloudscape and Apache Derby databases by its award-winning FireStorm/DAO tool that generates the Java persistence code for accessing databases. CodeFutures' code generation approach provides faster and cheaper application development, higher quality applications, and more predictable and consistent results. CodeFutures approach ensures that the focus of software developers is solving business problems.

"We've added support for Cloudscape and Derby due to customer demand. Since IBM contributed the Cloudscape code to the Apache Software Foundation in August 2004, both Cloudscape and Derby have gained a lot of supporters " explains Andy Grove, Chief Architect, CodeFutures Software.

FireStorm/DAO generates Java source code and configuration files that developers would otherwise have to write by hand. FireStorm/DAO imports database schemas (from a SQL script or from a live JDBC connection) and generates a complete persistence tier based using a choice of Java persistence technologies (JDBC, EJB CMP, JDO, Hibernate).

The new release of FireStorm/DAO includes a database Schema Migration feature that makes it easier to migrate database schemas between different databases. Any SQL data types from the old database not supported by the new target database are automatically changed to the appropriate supported data types. This includes the Cloudscape and Derby data types, making it possible to migrate applications to these increasingly-popular databases.

Additional information on FireStorm/DAO is available here:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO is available for download here:

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

About CodeFutures

CodeFutures is the leading supplier of database performance tools. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' database access tools are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. CodeFutures' first product, the award-winning FireStorm/DAO, makes Java software developers more productive by generating Java DAO ( Data Access Object) code for accessing relational databases.

CodeFutures' products are used by corporate Java software programmers for Java persistence in sectors such as television (BBC Technology, Turner Broadcasting), finance (Lehman Brothers, BACS), military systems (BAE, Lockheed Martin), government(Missouri Lottery, Port of Barcelona), IT consulting (Siemens Business Systems, LogicaCMG, BearingPoint), retail(MetCash, Ahold USA), high technology (EMC, Macromedia), and industry (Suzuki, AREVA).