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June 2006

Raincode now provides access to native lexical information from within scripts, so that coding guidelines related to the position of keywords, alignements, etc. can be coded much more efficiently than before.

May 2006

The RainCode engines now includes support for sqlite so that repository-style information can now be stored on a relational database, using common SQL statements (INSERT, DELETE). This database is usable out of the box with the RainCode engine, no external tool or plugin is required.

January 2006

Since version 1.0, the RainCode Engine was distributed with two ancillary files with the ".tab" extension, and which contained the transition tables for the target language (COBOL, C, Ada, etc.) and RainCode Script parsers. The information included in these tab files is now integrated in the executable, thereby avoiding any version mismatch and considerably reducing startup times. There is no need for any environment variable nor configuration information about where to find the tab files, making installation and daily use even simpler than it used to be. Startup performance has also been reduced up to a point where it becomes virtually imperceptible.

February 2005

RainCode decides to distribute the RainCode Engine for Ada, C, and COBOL for FREE. Get your own license on RainCode Online.

September 15 - 16 2004

RainCode is sponsor of the 4th Annual IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, which will be held in Chicago this September. This workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance.

June 14 - 18 2004

RainCode was exhibitor at Ada Europe 2004, the 9th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, which took place in Palma de Mallorca. On this occasion, we presented the latest developments to the RainCode Checker for Ada.

September 22 - 26 2003

RainCode is sponsor of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance , which will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On this occasion, RainCode will give a talk about its automatic restructuring service for COBOL applications.

March 2003

Launching of RainCode Online's restructuring service. This is a new online service which automatically restructures COBOL code, even COBOL generated by code generators like APS, ADW, Cool:gen....

January 2003

Our website is now connected to RainCode Online, which is an E-Commerce site where various products and services can be purchased. It also integrates a number of features related to customer service: downloads, registration to mailing lists, etc.

August 2002

Release of an actual evaluation version of the RainCode Engine for COBOL.

July 2002

Now downloadable on this website: a demo/evaluation version of the RainCode Engine for Ada.

June 18 - 20 2002

RainCode was exhibitor at Ada Europe 2002, the 7th international conference on reliable software technologies, which took place in Vienna, Austria.

June 10 2002

The downloadable example of the RainCode Roadmap on the GNAT sources has been upgraded. Click here to take a look at it.

April 2002

We're currently working on the release of RIDE 2.0, RainCode's programming-oriented text editor. This new release will be compatible with more languages, and integrate a series of enhancements and new features, such as a new "diff" tool, which allows to ignore non significative changes while comparing different versions of a file. More on this subject very soon.

February - April 2002

Development of a process to automatically renovate Pacbase-generated COBOL code in order to make it readable and ease maintenance. Want to know more about it? Read our newsletter on the topic.

February 2002

Completion of automatic CA-Ideal to COBOL migration.

January 2002

Availability of a downloadable step-by-step demonstration of RainCode for COBOL. This demo presents some of the most essential RainCode functions, applied to real world COBOL-source samples.

November 2001

Automatic detection of comments, which only contain code. During development of large systems, it often happens that part of the code is put into comments before removal. This type of comment has a negative impact on comment based metrics, which then become abnormaly high. RainCode is now capable of detecting such kind of comments and updating comment based metrics accordingly.

July 2001

Availability of RainCode for Ada, together with the matching Roadmap.

April 2001

Availability of RainCode for Informix 4GL, together with the matching Roadmap.

January 2001

Availability of the Roadmap wizard, which provides a convenient graphical user interface on top of the Roadmap (aka OTA) documentation system, in such a way that users can define file lists, properties and groups without having to go through the intricaties of RainCode's command-line options.

December 2000

Availability of RIDE for PL/1.

July 2000

Availability of RIDE for Java, together with a number of scripts that implement commonly used coding guidelines for Java.

May 2000

Availability of the first beta of RIDE (RainCode Integrated Development Environment), which combines the convenience of a full-featured text editor with the customizable power of RainCode. The first version only supports COBOL.

5 April 1999

Availability of the first beta of RainCode for Natural, as well as the corresponding One Time Assessment, that integrates smoothly with the assessments performed for other languages.

12 March 1999

Availability of the CSP version of the One Time Assessment, integrated in the other versions (that is, COBOL and PL/1) so that source code real estate can be managed globally, even if it is made of components written in different languages.

22 Feb 1999

Availability of the CSP version, that takes ESF (or FSF) files as input, and that includes inference mechanism to detect presentation vs. business intelligence components.

13 Jan 1999

Availability of the One Time Assessment (shortly, OTA) which is a service based on RainCode and which provides a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative report on source code. This report is produced as a number of HTML files, so that the result of the OTA can be published on the Internet or an Intranet, and viewed with any recent browser.

14 Dec 1998

Fine tuned semantic analysis, where the usages of a variable for reading and for writing can be separated. Full impact analysis can be performed now.

1 Dec 1998

First Beta version of the PL/1 version of RainCode. It handles the full PL/1 language (as far as we know), and can even handle awful things such as:
IF IF=THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF
We plan to test RainCode for PL/1 extensively, as we'll get more and more sample PL/1 source files to work on.

10 Nov 1998

IDMS support has been implemented. Unlike other extensions (such as CICS, SQL and DL/1), IDMS statements are not surrounded by the standard keywords EXEC and END-EXEC. Hence, they must be recognized as first class statements, as if they were normal COBOL statements.