Separation of Read-Only and Read-Write Files

To support the separation of read-only and read-write files at run time, the jade.exe and jaddinst.exe programs do not write any files into the JADE installation directory. (This affects standard clients and thin clients.)

The JadeWorkDirectory parameter in the [JadeEnvironment] section of the JADE initialization file defines the location of a directory that JADE uses for work files. This directory, which is required for internal use such as interlock files used during downloading, defaults to <jade-program-data-directory>\temp.

In addition, the thin client cache file is written into this directory if the location has not been specified by the FormCacheFile parameter in the [JadeThinClient] section of the JADE initialization file.

The download.log file created by the download install process is output to the log directory specified in the LogDirectory parameter in the [JadeLog] section of the JADE initialization file.

To ensure total read-only and read-write file separation, the JADE initialization file cannot be located in the JADE HOME directory.