All JADE applications that are managed with JADE Care must have the JADE Care Start class library installed as a superschema of each application. Normally JADE Care Start will be the immediate subschema of Root Schema. The version of JADE Care Start should be kept up to date with the relevant JADE release. JADE Care Start is licensed free of charge to JADE users.

JADE Care Start contains two broad categories of classes. These are as follows:

JADE Care Systems Management Classes

This group of classes provides the functionality required by JADE in order to support remote systems management and application deployment. The functions provided include:

• connection to JADE Care Systems Agent at application start up
• monitoring and reporting of client start up and shut down
• critical application monitoring
• application version control and deployment
• capture of certain application performance data

JADE Care Common Service Classes

This group of JADE Care Start classes is used by the following applications:

• JADE Care Start itself
• JADE Care Systems Manager
• JADE Care Systems Agent
• Any user application that is a subschema of JADE Care Start

The common service classes include the following significant functions:

• Global exception handlers:
• global (if all else fails) exception handler
• lock exception handler, with retry mechanism
• deadlock exception handler, with retry mechanism
• TCP connection exception handler
• Comprehensive application stack dump utility. This is an essential tool for diagnosing intermittent or data-dependent application faults in a distributed production environment.
• Application diagnostic logging facility
• SMTP classes, which allows the application developer to send SMTP messages and attachments
• LDAP classes, which allow developers to easily code directory access to an LDAP server.
• FTP and HTTP file transfer classes
• Easy-to-use TCP connection class and methods
• Methods to allow the application developer to specify the collection of transaction performance data
• Encapsulated on-line database backup application
• Miscellaneous utility functions, such as;
• string handling routines
• time and date handling routines
• file path handling methods

JADE Care Start Version Information and Downloads