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Great effort so far John. Not being able to integrate with version control systems has always been a disadvantage of Jade, so any efforts in this area are great. Some initial thoughts I have are: [*]Git is a source control for text (i.e. code). One of the interesting things about Jade is that it int...

Thanks Murray, parsing is certainly an option. Before going down that track though, I thought I'd check to see if this problem had already been solved. I suspect the timezone part will be a bit fiddly as TimeStampOffset is the UTC time plus the offset, whereas the ISO 8601 format is the local time p...

I need to read an XML message from an MSMQ. This message contains dateTimes in the ISO 8601 format (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime for more information). For example: 12/01/2012 14:00 would be represented in the XML message as "2012-01-12T14:00:00.00+00:00". I then need to store this...

Could you create your own type to represent a nullable integer? This class could have a protected Integer attribute which is set via a public method. The class could then have a method called something like "isNull". For example: class NullableInteger protected Integer value protected Boolean hasBee...

We're actually in the process of setting up automated running of unit tests. We're still trialling our setup, so I'll answer your questions based on what we're currently using. We currently invoke jadclient per schema. This is because we've struggled to get the test results reported correctly when r...

I'd be keen to present something on the refactoring tool. Just to clarify, the tool Neil refers to is not affliated with Jade, but is an extension of the scripts in this post: https://forums.jadeworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1710&p=6195#p6195 . Dr Danyo and I have added quite a lot to it and are pla...

I've had a quick play with extracting schemas in sections but I couldn't quite get it to work as I wanted (though I can't quite remember the problem I had now). I think Alistar's third suggestion, combined with developers working on local copies of Jade and extracting schemas in sections might be wh...

We've recently started to use the unit testing framework as part of a wider adoption of lean/agile principles. So far, we've found it to be adequate for writing and running tests. The initial schema and class structure we've chosen is as follows: Tests are written in a subschema of the schema being ...

Thanks Alistar. I'm not too worried about deployment at the moment - my question is more about developer productivity. Of the options you presented, option 3 seems to be the best in that regard. However, it sounds like that is still missing some of the benefits I listed in my opening post (e.g. isol...

I'm curious as to how people manage their Jade source code. Other lanaguages that I'm familiar with are file based (e.g. C#, Java etc). This means you can use a source control system like Subversion or Team Foundation Server to store your source code, giving you benefits such as: Concurrent developm...