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Designed as an end-to-end development environment to allow systems to be coded in one language from the [[database server]] down to the [[client (computing)|clients]], it also provides [[API]]<nowiki/>s for other languages, including [[.NET Framework]],<ref name="dotNET">[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0905/S00125.htm Scoop Independent News – JADE 6.3]</ref> [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[C (programming language)|C]]/[[C++]] and [[Web service]]s.
Designed as an end-to-end development environment to allow systems to be coded in one language from the [[database server]] down to the [[client (computing)|clients]], it also provides [[API]]<nowiki/>s for other languages, including [[.NET Framework]],<ref name="dotNET">[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0905/S00125.htm Scoop Independent News – JADE 6.3]</ref> [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[C (programming language)|C]]/[[C++]] and [[Web service]]s.
As a programming language, its main competitors are Java and [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], while as a database it competes with other object-oriented databases and [[post-relational database]]s such as [[Versant Object Database|Versant]], [[Caché (software)|Caché]] and [[Matisse (DBMS)|Matisse]] as well as traditional relational database software packages such as [[Oracle database|Oracle]] and [[Microsoft SQL Server]].


Although a free limited licence is available for development, using the JADE platform requires per-process fees to be paid.
Although a free limited licence is available for development, using the JADE platform requires per-process fees to be paid.