Evolving JADE
To enable you to meet your organisational objectives and to allow your teams to work more efficiently, it is important for the JADE platform to continually evolve. We hope you enjoy the new functionality available in this release. We've certainly enjoyed getting it shipshape for you.
When will the new release be available?
JADE 2020 is now available. Download it here.
What is coming in JADE 2020?
Openness – Making it easier to integrate with your entire technology stack
- REST API Consumer (JAD-I-97)
REST Client Demo is available here - Support Utf8 in JadeHttpConnection (JAD-I-349)
Security – Meeting stringent security requirements
- Securing RESTful services (JAD-I-430)
- SSL encryption
Performance – Ensure system performance and reliability
Deployment and Operations – Make it easier to deploy and manage JADE, in the cloud and onsite
- Containerising JADE services (JAD-I-433)
Containerising JADE demo is available here - Restartable logical certify (JAD-I-478)
- Certifier warnings added (JAD-I-407)
Developer Productivity and Experience – Help Developers do more in less time and improve their experience
- RootSchema Iterable / Iterator Interfaces (JAD-I-571, JAD-I-572, JAD-I-173)
- Array of variable length strings (JAD-I-84)
- Regular Expression Support (JAD-I-438)
Regex Demo available here - Built-in Quick Inspect (JAD-I-168)
Demo is available here - Support Time zones and daylight savings (JAD-I-254)
Demo is available here - IDE UX improvements:
- IDE Themes (JAD-I-432)
- Including Dark Themes (JAD-I-370)
- Coloured access icons (JAD-I-348)
- Tab colour scheme (JAD-I-352)
- Smaller improvements to the IDE (40+ features, including UI, efficiency, layouts etc.)
User Experience – Giving you more options to create great experiences for end users
- Skins – Usability improvements (JAD-I-404, JAD-I-443, JAD-I-306)
- Float/Dock for MDI Child forms (JAD-I-446)
- Message Boxes with custom button captions (JAD-I-146)
- comboBox enhancements for touch screens (JAD-I-467)
Living Roadmap
The JEDI portal is a collection of Ideas -- ideas for the ways we can make JADE work better for you. Every idea on the JEDI forum has a status. The ideas with these statuses represent features that make up the roadmap:
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Planned
We’ve prioritised this feature and expect to ship it in JADE 2020. -
Executing
We’re actively working on this feature and expect to ship it in JADE 2020. - Ready for release
It’s done! You’ll see this feature in JADE 2020
Items with a status of future consideration haven’t been prioritised for the next release. We’ll revisit them in the future as we have capacity.
Follow the roadmap on the JEDI portal, here you can add new ideas, as well as leave comments and feedback on existing ideas - including the ones we are executing, or have implemented already.
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