Non compiling Jade. I think I understand why now.

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by JADE Kid - Ray Hidayat >> Wed, 17 May 2000 8:20:45 GMT

I always used to complain to AJ that JADE WILL NOT COMPILE INTO AN EXE LIKE VB AND QB AND C AND DELPHI AND EVEN MODULA, THE LANGUAGE IT WAS BASED ON!!! But you know, after a little (that is an understatement) thought about it, I think that it is a great idea to have JADE not compile into an executable file!

The reason he told me was that "Here at Jade; We believe that things are always changing. ".
And he was right.

Jade is a business program that serves other computers with a database. Now constantly people will be editing it, changing it and making it better and better. The thing that is special about JADE is you can do this while the program is running. Now I think that the people at Jade thought of everything. Gosh; I love Jade. Has anyone been annoyed with the same problem? Well if you have, I hope this is the answer.

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Ray Hidayat
JADE Kid - 2000
www.jadekids.com

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by Carl Ranson >> Wed, 17 May 2000 21:46:17 GMT

Yeah.....plus it means they can sell run-time licenses...

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by Philip >> Thu, 18 May 2000 7:07:37 GMT

Although it SEEMS to be a good idea I see some downsides to it...

1) JADE get money for your programs (in some cases more than your program is worth).
2) If I make a MASSIVE program and I want to change a TINY part of it the problem with JADE is that I can't just simple deploy a small DLL file (or somethng like that). I have to send away massive amounts of code. Even though 'thngs are always changing', people get put off your product if they have to download/get a massive file that takes ages to install.

Philip Q

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by BeeJay >> Fri, 19 May 2000 0:10:04 GMT

2) If I make a MASSIVE program and I want to change a TINY part of it the problem with JADE is that I can't just simple deploy a small DLL file (or somethng like that). I have to send away massive amounts of code. Even though 'thngs are always changing', people get put off your product if they have to download/get a massive file that takes ages to install.

You can, however, deploy small scm and ddb files containing a selective extract of the changes you've made without the need for them to download a massive file or send them massive amounts of code. Neither will it necessarily take ages to install - although if you've made a structural change involving a reorg of a class with a large number of instances then your reorg may take a while... but then that wouldn't be considered a TINY change anymore.

BeeJay.

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by JADE Kid - Ray Hidayat >> Fri, 19 May 2000 5:50:58 GMT

JADE do get money for our programs, but is that such a bad thing? I am getting money too if you didn't notice.
But remember when we saw those servers in the Jade building? You probably don't remember seeing any, but there were some in the second room.
So if you want to deploy a program from Jade, it will run on the Jade server, and they just need to be able to connect to it, with a thin client or something.

Secondly, if you want to change a certain part of the program, all you need to do is a selective extract or an extract of all the changes. That is just like any other patching program isn't it? So I'm sure that Jade have covered that. And also if you can change the program on the Jade server, there will be no problem, because the computers are connected to Jade!

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Ray Hidayat
JADE Kid - 2000
www.jadekids.com

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by Michael Jones >> Wed, 14 Jun 2000 3:19:32 GMT

The primary reason for interpreted languages is cross platform compatiability, The sytstem it
is running on generates the machine level code rather than using some platform specific compiled program, allowing languages like jade to be ported to any system which has a JADE
interpreter.