CodeFutures Support Blog

One of the new features in 3.0 EA is the ability to set default values for DTO fields when defining Table and View DAOs through the FireStorm/DAO user interface.

You can enter a literal value or an expression. When entering literal values for String columns please remember to include quotes.

Some examples of default values:

• 100
• "USD"
• false
• new Date()
• System.currentTimeMillis()
• MyGenerator.generateGUID()
• MyClass.init("customer.number")

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FireStorm/DAO 3.0 Early Access (build 24) now correctly reverse-engineers REF CURSOR parameter information, including REF CURSOR columns, when importing Oracle Stored Procedures.

It is no longer necessary to manually edit stored procedure parameters through the FireStorm/DAO user interface before generating code.

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FireStorm/DAO 3.0 build 18 is now available for existing customers to preview.

New features in 3.0 include:

* Full support for Oracle REF CURSOR parameters to stored procedures
* Hibernate support
* JDBC DAOs now support setMaxRows
* Improved user interface & usability

If you do not already have the download location for version 3.0 please email sales@codefutures.com for access.

REF CURSOR support

When defining parameters for a stored procedure, chooseing the JDBC type of 'REFCURSOR' enables a chooser button next to the JDBC type dropdown. Clicking this button opens a new editor where the REF CURSOR columns can be defined.

setMaxRows support

JDBC DAOs for Tables and Views now have a setMaxRows() method. This method should be called prior to calling any finder methods to limit the number of rows returned (the DAO finder implementations simply makes a call to JDBC setMaxRows method before executing their SQL query).

User Interface & Usability

Improvements include:

• FireStorm's tree control has had a major overhaul, with add/delete menu options now available for all items in the project structure, including provider options
• New icons are now used in the tree and throughout the menu.
• Many of the editors have been improved so they use all available screen space and resize gracefully
• When defining parameters and result sets, items can now be reordered
• When installing FireStorm, existing firestorm-conf.xml files will no longer be overwritten

Hibernate support

Hibernate support is partially implemented. FireStorm generates hbm mapping files for each table/view and generates Hibernate persistent classes for each table/view.

Posted by Andy Grove at 07:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)