JADE: Java for ACEDB

Jade is a Java-based interface between the object-oriented ACEDB database and the Java programming language. The features of Jade include:

1. Database independent -- runs on top of relational, object-oriented and flat file databases.
2. Portable.
3. Multithreaded.
4. Multiplatform.
5. Available free of charge.

Jade was developed as a graphical front end for the C. elegans genome database. However it has been used to provide interfaces to databases for other organisms, as well as non-biological fields entirely, such as astronomy.

Demos

Several demos are available. The speed of the demos will depend on how close you are (network topologically speaking). Some of the demos may be down from time to time.

1. The C. elegans database (database & server in New York)
2. The C. elegans database (database & server in France)
3. The Washington University Genome Center worm sequencing project (France)
4. The fly database
5. Rice Pedigrees (France)
6. Access to the GDB relational (Sybase) database (database in Baltimore, server in France!)
7. An astronomy database (France)

Downloads

Jade runs on any platform that supports Java. However to run an ACEDB server you will need a Unix system or one of its variants (such as Linux).

You will find the current Jade version and any previously released versions can be found at http://stein.cshl.org/jade/distrib/. This is freely distributable software. You download and use it for any purpose whatsoever, so long as the attribution remains intact. Please see the copyright and limited liability statements in the README file for details.

Documentation

Documentation of the database interface and (some of) the graphical library is available at http://stein.cshl.org/jade/distrib/docs/jade.db.html

Last modified: Tue Jul 14 12:40:51 EDT 1998