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Codase Announces Beta Version of its Syntax-Aware Source Code Search
Engine
Fremont, CA - Nov 10, 2005 - Codase,
Inc., a leading source code search company, announced today the release of the
beta version of its advanced source code search service, with the service being
made immediately available through its website, http://www.codase.com.
Codase is an innovative and unique search engine for source
code. Codase offers the best search results than any other services
available today in source code search space. First, the fundamental
difference is that Codase understands many programming languages
as the intelligent source code analysis engine parses
them into individual language constructs, while other search engines
simply treat code as text. Second, Codase performs hierarchy and
relationship searches, rather than flat keyword searches. Codase facilitates a
way to convert flat and unstructured data into hierarchies with relationships.
Relationships among elements are stored and thus can be searched, whereas
other search engines only perform one level keyword search.
Compared to the alpha release, the current beta version has many
improvements and new features. The following is a brief summary:
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More code and projects - This beta release contains about 250
million lines of code in C, C++ and Java, whereas the initial alpha
release focused mainly on Linux C/C++ code with about 120 million lines of
code. The total number of projects indexed in this beta release is over
15,000 open source projects. By searching around this large code base,
developers can fully take advantage of existing work and thus improve their own
productivity for development.
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Smart query system - This beta release provides an innovative,
straightforward and yet very powerful way to enter complex queries. For the
first time, to find relevant code, developers can simply type into a
search box about the same code as they do in their
daily development work. The Codase smart query system
processes the input and then builds an internal query to feed into the
search engine. Through this free style format, complex
combinations of multiple search terms can be easily entered. For example,
to find any main method that contains variable t
and function calls of thread.start()
and println, this query can be
used:
main() { var t; thread.start(); println; }.
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Java API documentation and browsing system - This beta release
features a java documentation and code browsing interface, where developers can
read java API documentation and click for sample code. This
is a powerful mechanism for developers to learn how to use java
APIs by consulting real code samples from hundreds of millions of lines of java
code. The standard J2SDK and the enterprise J2EE platforms are covered.
http://www.codase.com/java.
"After the alpha release two months ago, we have
received many positive feedbacks and suggestions. This beta release addresses
some of their requests.", said Dr. Huihong Luo, founder of Codase, "We will
continue to innovate, and truly make Codase a top site for
developers."
About Codase, Inc.
Codase is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley, founded by Dr.
Huihong Luo and other veterans in 2004. The company is dedicated to providing
the world's best search technologies for source code in terms of features,
quality, performance and coverage, with the hope of dramatically improving
coding productivity for developers. Additional information about Codase can be
found at http://www.codase.com or email to
codase@remotesoft.com.
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