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We are now accepting requests for the Architect Edition evaluation kit which we are launching on Monday 1st December.

Posted by Andy Grove at 10:06 AM | Permalink

The 3rd BETA of FireStorm/DAO Enterprise Edition is now available to download from:

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

Key features in this beta:

• Fixes a bug that was sometimes causing FireStorm to generate different parts of code into two different directories
• Entity Bean ejbCreate() methods now take the whole DTO as an argument rather than the primary-key columns. This provides better performance and is also the correct behaviour

This release also includes the new features and improvements from releases 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 of the Standard Edition.

Posted by Andy Grove at 08:56 PM | Permalink

FireStorm/DAO Standard Edition v2.0.2 is now available to download from:

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

Changes since 2.0.1:

• Generate SQL now generates correct SQL syntax for MySQL schemas
• Support for java.sql.Clob Java type
• SQL Server IDENTITY support now working
• SQL Server schema name prefix bug fixed (now uses schema..table instead of schema.table)
• ANT tasks working again (obfuscation error in 2.0.1)
• New feature - customizable templates for file header in generated code
• Fix token-replacement problem with product.edition in README.HTML
• Fixed bug in generated equals() method in DTOs
• SQL Server datatype improved support (NVARCHAR, SMALLDATETIME, UNIQUEIDENTITY)

Posted by Andy Grove at 01:51 PM | Permalink

The second BETA release of FireStorm/DAO Enterprise Edition is now available for download.

This release includes the following improvements that also feature in the Standard Edition 2.0.1 release:

• Generated code has re-usable methods for common operations (such as fetching results) making the code far closer to human-authored code
• Generated code also includes comments and only has import statements that are needed, again making the code appear to be human-authored.
• There is now an option to control whether the SQL statements should include the schema name or not.
• DAO implementation now has findBySqlSelect and findBySqlWhere for greater control over the SQL that is executed for finder methods.
• Bugs in Linux script (firestorm.sh) have been fixed.
• Fixed Linux font issues
• New and improved GUI look-and-feel
• Oracle CLOB columns are now correctly recognized when importing from JDBC
• Project file format has changed slightly so that code-generation options are stored as key-value pairs making it feasible to have a consistent XSD for all code generator plug-ins (including user-defined code generators with the Architect edition).
• It is now possible to specify the name of the generated JAR file in the project file

Posted by Andy Grove at 06:55 AM | Permalink

Version 2.0.1 of FireStorm/DAO Standard Edition is now available to download.

Change since 2.0 include:

• Generated code has re-usable methods for common operations (such as fetching results) making the code far closer to human-authored code
• Generated code also includes comments and only has import statements that are needed, again making the code appear to be human-authored.
• There is now an option to control whether the SQL statements should include the schema name or not.
• DAO implementation now has findBySqlSelect and findBySqlWhere for greater control over the SQL that is executed for finder methods.
• Bugs in Linux script (firestorm.sh) have been fixed.
• Fixed Linux font issues
• New and improved GUI look-and-feel
• Oracle CLOB columns are now correctly recognized when importing from JDBC
• Project file format has changed slightly so that code-generation options are stored as key-value pairs making it feasible to have a consistent XSD for all code generator plug-ins (including user-defined code generators with the Architect edition).
• It is now possible to specify the name of the generated JAR file in the project file

Posted by Andy Grove at 10:15 PM | Permalink

Existing FireStorm customers can upgrade to version 2.0 Standard or Enterprise Edition at a discounted price before the end of November. Please contact us for more information.

Posted by Andy Grove at 09:26 AM | Permalink

The public BETA of FireStorm/DAO 2.0 Enterprise Edition is now available to download.

This edition offers DAO, JDBC, JDO, EJB, and JSP code generation from your FireStorm project.

Supported platforms include the JDO Reference Implementation, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, and standalone Java.

Posted by Andy Grove at 09:21 AM | Permalink

The FAQ section of the site now contains some sample source code for generating Java code from a schema using FireStorm/DAO Architect Edition.

Posted by Andy Grove at 07:40 AM | Permalink

There is a new FAQ entry explaining how to use transactions with the code generated by FireStorm.

Posted by Andy Grove at 02:51 PM | Permalink