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This release supports Windows Vista and JDK 1.5 and contains some bug fixes. Please refer to the README and Change Log for more information.

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If you are using Windows platform then you can use the following command line parameters to control how much memory to give the JVM. This example specifies an initial size of 256MB and a maximum size of 512MB but you may want to use larger numbers.

firestorm.exe -J-Xms256M -J-Xmx512M

If you want to launch using the jar files directly and bypass the .exe (or if you are on Linux/Mac) you will need to ensure that you have log4j and jdom jars (that ship with FireStorm/DAO) in your classpath and use the command line:

java -Xms256M -Xmx512M -jar firestorm.jar

As of build 148, the findByPrimaryKey finder is a special type of finder that is automatically updated whenever the primary key is updated. It can no longer be edited manually but still appears in the project file in full for backward compatibility.

This build also contains an improved UI for defining Table and View DAOs as shown in this screenshot. Click on the image for a larger version.

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Hibernate support has been greatly improved based on user feedback from RC1. One-to-one and many-to-one relationships are now correctly modelled in the persistent classes and the hibernate mapping files. For more information please refer to the hibernate documentation section of the user manual.

You can view or download the HTML version of the documentation here:

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

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This build fixes a number of bugs related to the code generation option "prefix table with schema name". This option was working correctly for J2SE code generation but not for J2EE code generation. Also there were inconsistencies in how this option was saved to the project file.

The first time that you generate code from your project using this new build, it is recommended that you double check the setting of this option to make sure it is set to the value you desire (on or off) and that you save your project file afterwards.

The name of the option in the "provider options" section of the project file has been standardised to "prefix-schema-name" whereas previously both "prefix-schema-name" and "use-schema-name" were in use.

The Release Candidate 1 is now available for download.

The new feature list is:

• Hibernate code generation

FireStorm/DAO produces Hibernate Java persistent classes and a Hibernate mapping file (*.hbm.xml) for each database table.

• REF CURSOR support for Oracle Stored Procedures

FireStorm/DAO reverse-engineers stored procedures for Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase. Oracle support has been enhanced and FireStorm/DAO now reverse-engineers REF CURSOR parameter information, including REF CURSOR columns, when importing Oracle Stored Procedures.

• Using Dynamic SQL with Custom SQL DAOs

It is now possible to execute Custom Data Access Objects with dynamic SQL. Effectively this means that the same DTO and DAO mapping can now be used with multiple SQL statements. A typical use-case for using Dynamic SQL statements with a Custom DAO is where a multi-table SELECT is implemented as a Custom DAO but there is a need for multiple "finder" methods.

• 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).

• Setting Default Values for DTO Fields

Users can set default values for DTO fields when defining Table and View DAOs through the FireStorm/DAO user interface. Typical uses of this feature would include allocating UUID values to primary key fields and defaulting date fields to today's date.

• User Interface and Usability Improvements

There are many usability improvements, for example, when re-installing or upgrading FireStorm/DAO, existing firestorm- conf.xml files are no longer overwritten.

Between RC1 and GA, we're going to test, test, document, and test. We've improved the user interface so much that we're going to have to re-shoot all the video demos as well.

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Build 48 features significant improvements in Hibernate ORM support as well as further improvements to the Studio user interface (FireStorm/DAO now remembers the 10 most recent projects in the File menu and the JDBC Driver and JDBC Data Source configuration dialogs have been overhauled).

You can view the release notes here.

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

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")