Highlights in this Release

The highlights in JADE release 2020, which help you to deliver high‑performance, interoperable applications on Windows for both 32‑bit and 64‑bit platforms, are as follows. You can now use:

• Containerization, which provides a new way to run your JADE applications.

  Deliverables

  • Docker container‑ready versions of backend components such as database and application servers as well as non‑GUI standard client nodes.

  • Docker images for JADE services that can be used to configure and deploy a fully containerized JADE environment accessible from a public JADE Container Registry (JCR).

  Benefits

  Containers are efficient, secure, and portable. You can run existing JADE applications in a Docker‑based ecosystem with no code changes.

  Value

  Containerizing your JADE application can help you meet some of the biggest challenges in IT: modernizing heritage applications, moving to the cloud, adopting DevOps, enabling coexistence with newer cloud‑native applications, and staying innovative.

  For details, see "Containerization (Jad-I-433)", later in this document.

• Collection concurrency, which provides:

  • Conditional collection operations

  • New collection methods that allow updates to persistent collections to be deferred

  • New deferred update mode for automatic multi‑valued inverses

  Benefit

  Provides a simple way to remove or avoid bottlenecks (and deadlocks) caused by contention for collection locks.

  Value

  Enables developers to improve the scalability of their JADE applications and remove code complexity around collection locking, thereby simplifying the code base.

  For details, see "Collection Concurrency (JAD-I-423)", later in this document.

• End‑to‑end Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption between:

  • jadehttp.dll (IIS) and the application server (REST and SOAP web service providers)

  • SDS primary and secondary nodes

  For details, see "End-to-End SSL Encryption", in Chapter 2 of the JADE Installation and Configuration Guide.

• JADE REST client RootSchema classes, which allow for the easy consumption of REST services. A proxy class generator is also provided, which consumes an OpenAPI specification of a REST API and generates the appropriate data model and resource proxy classes.

  For details, see "REST Client (NFS 65594, JAD-I-97)", later in this document.

• The ability to restrict JADE REST APIs so that only clients with a valid bearer token can consume the API. In addition, an API developer can customize the rules on what constitutes a valid token to meet your requirements.

  For details, see "REST Service Security (JAD-I-430)", later in this document.

• The JadeRegexLibrary class, which is the abstract superclass of the regular expression (Regex) pattern‑matching Application Programming Interface (API) subclasses in JADE. This API reduces hand‑crafted string parsing and code manipulation, to assist in the reading and testing of your code.

  JADE does not implement a Regex engine itself, but wraps an existing implementation (the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) dialect) with defined behavior and documentation.

  For details, see "Regular Expression (Regex) Pattern Matching (JAD-I-438)", later in this document.

• The foreach instruction iteration using the new RootSchema interfaces JadeIterableIF and JadeReverseIterableIF, which provide contracts for an implementing class to support being iterated. These interfaces expose iterator implementations through new RootSchema interfaces JadeIteratorIF and JadeReversibleIteratorIF.

  For details, see "Iterating using Interfaces (JAD-I-571)", later in this document.

• The JADE Logical Certifier option that validates only inverse references and collections that have changed since the last time the system was certified.

  For details, see "Incremental Logical Certify (JAD-I-478)", later in this document.

• Many new features and changes in the JADE development environment; for example, a dark theme and the quick inspect functionality.

  For details, see "JADE Development Environment", later in this document.