JADE Environment Development Ideas

The online help for tryAddIfNotNull: "attempts to add the value specified by the value parameter to the collection if the value is not null and it is not already contained in the collection. This method returns true if the value was successfully a...

The Constant class has a number of quite useful methods to return the receiver's value, e.g. "valueAsDate", "valueAsInteger", "valueAsString" etc, but they are unpublished. Could these methods be published please ?

We regularly produce code metrics to report on the health of our code base. Part of this is taking the Code Coverage files (CCD) from regular unit test runs, convert these to CSV and then match this up with the methods that have been created/modif...

For a few years now there have been discussions on how Jade could be improved by including a new and modern take on source control, utilising industry accepted tools or ideas. A vote here is firstly then to confirm you still feel this is important...

Null exceptions must be up there with the most common runtime issue. Often these occur when dealing with older persistent data that didn?t have the same validation enforced on it, or object references yet to be populated. There are various strateg...

I've seen a bit of confusion from Jade Operations Customers around the version numbering of JADE releases. With the recent release of JADE 2022 Service Pack 2, which is numbered as "22.0.03", some customers are assuming this is Service Pack 3.Can ...

Many development environments support a try/catch exception handling style, typically: try { // do stuff}catch (exceptionObject) { // handle exceptions} Statements in the try block are executed and, if there is an exception of a type compatible wi...

When JADE started out there was the intention that the language would be simple enough that novice developers could code in it and understand it. This was the reason for not including "advanced" concepts like a ++ operator, or a switch statement. ...

We have encountered problems when parsing a JSON file where the property names clash with JADE reserved names (eg. "edition" or "system"). Would it be possible to have add a standard modifier on a reserved name (e.g. edition_ ) and still allow the...

It would be nice if the Jade IDE worked the same as the rest of Windows does. If I right-click an entry in a list, it should select that entry, and present the context menu for it. Jade works differently from the rest of Windows in that only left-...