jBASE
Data Security & Encryption
System integrity and data security are major factors that all IT departments have to take seriously today. These issues impact the end user IT department or the VAR developing applications to sell in to his selected market. In all cases, a company's auditors will be asking searching questions.
jBASE has addressed all of these issues and functionality has been even further refined in jBASE 5 to deliver the best system integrity and data security features on the MultiValue database market today and certainly on par with many RDBMS products.
RDBMS Integration
jBASE has a series of RDBMS integration solutions ensuring that valuable corporate data can be made available as and when required.
One of the original design concepts that has really delivered for jBASE is the core jEDI functionality. An integral part of every jBASE system, the default jEDI provides access to standard MultiValue hashed files. With this unique technology either selective files or all files can become RDBMS tables.
The supported RDBMS systems are Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle or any other system supporting ODBC. Major end users can match a corporate requirement for RDBMS compliance while still benefitting from hundreds of hours of development of tailored applications written in BASIC. VARs, on the other hand, can deliver applications to markets demanding RDBMS databases to capitalize on their investment and expand their business.
Microsoft Development
The Microsoft publicity is unmistakable that .NET is their clear and long term strategy for building and running the next generation of applications and XML Web services. The .NET Framework is designed to provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object code is stored and executed locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed, or executed remotely. It also makes the developer experience consistent across widely varying types of applications, such as Windows-based applications and Web-based applications. Delivering this functionality on jBASE 5 is therefore vitally important and so several options are available to meet and match differing needs
Java Development Tools
Java is an Open Source development platform used by approximately 5 million developers. It is robust, multi-threaded, well supported and can be deployed across all operating systems. On that basis, excellent Java support in jBASE Release 5 was a high and compelling requirement.
Java has been well supported on jBASE for many years based on the jRCS product. This easy to use and robust product supports Java application development and deployment across multiple platforms.
New with jBASE 5 is a whole suite of functionality to benefit enterprise application development. Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application development on jBASE 5 is supported by both the major JCA enhancements to jBASE Basic and new JDBC implementation.
4GL Development & System Builder Migration
The OSMOSiS product delivers to major functions to the jBASE customer. First OSMOSiS delivers a rich and rounded 4GL for the MultiValue developer on jBASE. There is requirement for the fast and efficient development of applications in a full MultiValue environment and OSMOSiS provides this functionality. Its complete development environment ensures the developer has all the tools necessary to deliver swiftly and efficiently new applications. The application user is provided with a modern Windows GUI environment that is familiar and easy to learn and use. To complement OSMOSiS there is a modern Windows based print manager to continue the theme for ease of use for the application.
OSMOSiS also provides a route to jBASE for the System Builder and SB+ user. This unique functionality in OSMOSiS enables an automated migration to the very latest jBASE 5 database for users of other MultiValue databases.
Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & Reporting
Reporting and more recently accessing data for Business Intelligence or exporting data for corporate Datawarehouse functions rely heavily on industry standard SQL based technologies. The importance of straightforward ODBC access to data has been recognized and jBASE 5 is delivered with a new ODBC interface, enabling all the industry standard tools to be used. To complement this for the Java community a new JDBC is also available.
On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is becoming more important every day. It allows company decision makers to slice and dice data enabling them make intelligent business decisions. One of the primary repositories of data for OLAP is Microsoft’s SQL Server. The ability to extract, transform and load (ETL) jBASE data into SQL Server is potentially very important for the jBASE user.
