CodeFutures have released version 2.0 of their DAO code generator tool for Java. FireStorm can import databases schemas from any database and then generates DAO interfaces, DTO classes, and DAO implementation classes based on JDBC.

FireStorm has a code generation framework allowing custom code generation modules to be developed (Architect edition only). The API provides access to all of FireStorm’s configuration and project meta-data in a simple Java object-model removing the need to parse the underlying XML files. FireStorm's code generation framework also provides a highly object-oriented approach to creating Java source files.

When generating code for J2EE it is possible to choose between JDBC, CMP EJB, or JDO for the DAO implementation code.

FireStorm/DAO is directly available for evaluation and purchase from CodeFutures’ Web site at http://www.codefutures.com/firestorm. FireStorm/DAO 2.0 Standard Edition is generally available and priced at $295.

Links

Press release:
http://www.codefutures.com/company/press/2003/11/04/

FireStorm/DAO™ 2.0 Product Overview:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/

FireStorm/DAO™ 2.0 Features Matrix:
http://www.codefutures.com/products/firestorm/editions/matrix.html


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Andy Grove
Chief Technology Officer
Code Futures, Ltd.

Any plans to support Hibernate?

You know that a framework has gained some traction and acceptance when that is the first question asked in every thread about related areas. :)

Hi,

Yes, Hibernate support is on the roadmap for a future version of FireStorm. Our immediate focus was to support the three Java standards (JDBC, JDO, and EJB) but we will add support for other frameworks that customers want supported.

We also have an Architect Edition of the product where you can plug in your own code generators so you can target any persistence framework you like and fully customize the generated code.

Regards,

Andy Grove.
Code Futures, Ltd.
http://www.codefutures.com

Hi Andy,

I've used your JDBC implementation and it works really well - saved many hours of hand coding.

However, I'm very happy to see that you're planning a JDO implementation. I believe that this will offer significant advantages over JDBC/EJB/Hibernate.


When will the JDO version be available?

Philip

Hello Philip,

Glad you liked the product.

The public beta of the Enterprise Edition will be available on Monday 17th November and this offers JDO code generation (as well as JDBC, CMP EJB, JSP, and Session Bean code generation).

For more information:

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

Regards,

Andy.

"Significant advantages": Philip, out of curiosity - why so?

Sandeep.

in answer to your question: for my project, JDO was fastest.


The enterprise edition of firestorm allowed me to try out JDBC and CMP/EJB as well. If it helps, EJB was slowest.



I'm not an expert on JDO, so I suggest you look at the site for a list of benefits on the site.

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

Philip

FYI .... Daffodil DB (www.daffodildb.com) is a Java database that works very well with Hibernate, JBoss and Tomcat. You can download the eval version at: http://daffodildb.com:8080/eval/filldetails.jsp

Cheers,
Uday

Is there any similar open source product?

According to website, it says FireSTorm supports any JDBC compliant Database, I tried to configure it for Hypersonic HSQLDB. Driver configuration worked fine, but it doesn't show any other options to specifiy database etc...
Is there any tech-support emails?
Thanks
Hemant
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Supported Databases

All editions of FireStorm/DAO 2.0 support the following database platforms:

Oracle 8i/9i
IBM DB2
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
Informix
InnoDB
Sybase
PostgreSQL
Any JDBC-compliant database
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