Highlights in this Release

The highlights in Jade release 2025, which help you to deliver high‑performance, interoperable applications on Windows for both 32‑bit and 64‑bit platforms, are as follows.

• Orb web framework. For details, see "Orb Web Framework", later in this document.

• New browsers in the development environment that display additional information about outgoing method calls, explore method call hierarchies, where a property is being updated in the code, and what unit tests cover a method. For details, see "Supplementary Browsers Available", later in this document.

• Provision of the switch instruction, which provides a structured way to execute one block of statements from multiple alternative statements, based on the value of an expression. See also "switch Instruction (JAD-I-96)", later this document.

• Jade now supports the .NET Core extension to the .NET Component and .NET Import functionality, which enables you to execute .NET Core runtime functionality. See also "Using the .NET Core Run Time", later in this document.

• You can now perform a number of RPS Manager functions using the command line, including the creation of a new RPS database, multithreading RPS database creation, and converting a primary database backup into an RPS node. For details, see "RPS Enhancements", later in this document.