Reserved Words

When you are creating a JADE application, you may find that some words cannot be used in your JADE methods (or you can use them in certain ways only). These are reserved words. Reserved words have a special meaning in JADE; for example, if you try to create a method called return, you are informed that return is a reserved word.

The JADE reserved words are listed in the following table.

abortTransaction	abortTransientTransaction	and
app	Any	appContext
as	attributeDefinitions	begin
beginLoad	beginLock	beginTransaction
beginTransientTransaction	Binary	Boolean
break	Byte	call
categoryDefinition	Character	classMapDefinitions
_cloneOf	commitTransaction	commitTransientTransaction
constantDefinitions	constants	continue
create	currentSchema	currentSession
databaseDefinitions	databaseFileDefinitions	Date
dbServerDefinitions	Decimal	defaultFileDefinition
delete	div	do
documentationText	else	elseif
_encryptedSource	_endEncryptedSource	end
endExecuteWhen	endforeach	endif
endLoad	endLock	endwhile
epilog	eventMethodMappings	executeWhen
exception	exportedClassDefinitions	exportedConstantDefinitions
exportedInterfaceDefinitions	exportedMethodDefinitions	exportedPackageDefinitions
exportedPropertyDefinitions	_exposedConstantDefinitions	_exposedJavaFeatures
_exposedListDefinitions	_exposedMethodDefinitions	_exposedPropertyDefinitions
externalFunctionDefinitions	externalFunctionSources	externalKeyDefinitions
externalMethodDefinitions	externalMethodSources	false
_for	foreach	global
if	implementInterfaces	importMethod
importedClassDefinitions	importedInterfaceDefinitions	importedPackageDefinitions
in	Integer	Integer64
interfaceDefinitions	interfaceDefs	inverseDefinitions
is	JadeFiletypeVersiontag	jadeMethodDefinitions
jadeMethodSources	jadePatchRelease	jadeVersionNumber
libraryDefinitions	localeDefinitions	localeFormatDefinitions
memberKeyDefinitions	membershipDefinitions	MemoryAddress
method	methodImplementations	mod
node	not	null
of	on	or
Point	parentOf	partitionMethod
peerOf	primitive	process
raise	read	Real
referenceDefinitions	_remapTableDefinitions	return
reversed	rootSchema	schemaDefaultLocale
schemaDefinition	schemaViewDefinitions	self
selfType	setModifiedTimeStamp	step
String	StringUtf8	subInterfaceOf
subclassOf	subschemaOf	system
terminate	then	Time
TimeStamp	TimeStampInterval	TimeStampOffset
to	translatableStringDefinitions	true
typeDefinitions	typeHeaders	typeSources
vars	webServicesClassProperties	webServicesMethodDefinitions
webServicesMethodProperties	webServicesMethodSources	where
while	write	xor

Words that begin with double underscore characters (__) are reserved for internal JADE use. In addition, the first four characters of a user-defined name should not be Jade (which is used to prefix JADE system entities).

The following words are not reserved words, but are part of the JADE syntax. Although you can reuse these words, the JADE editor applies the editor preferences color. To avoid confusion, you should not use these words as user-defined values.

discreteLock (specifies that a shared lock is not retained for the duration of the foreach instruction)
inheritCreate (instruction that invokes the superclass constructor with parameters)
inheritMethod (instruction that invokes the superclass implementation of a method)
internal, precondition (optional keywords specifying the type of exception in the raise instruction)
persistent, transient, sharedTransient (optional modifiers for the create instruction)
setPatchVersion (schema definition)