Six months after buying into Fujitsu’s Ltd’s vision of database object technology, Computer Associates International Inc has unveiled the first software developers kit for Jasmine, a version of Fujitsu’s nine-year-old ODB-II object database enhanced with its own availability and data integrity technology. Jade is the Computer Associates-built development environment and user interface for creating multimedia query and reporting programs for use with Jasmine. Third parties will use the free kit to put tools and C++ libraries up under Jasmine and Jade. Production versions of both are expected in October; Fujitsu will sell them in Japan, Computer Associates elsewhere. Jade will be available for NT and Windows95, Jasmine on Unix and NT. Pricing will start around $2,000. Jasmine supports bindings to Sun’s Java programming language and Microsoft Corp Object Linking & Embedding as well as C++. Applications created using Jade will also run under Web browsers. Jasmine is not quite the object- relational beast the two originally envisaged however. Computer Associates had promised to give its relational database, CA- OpenIngres a new lease of life with an extension into the object- relational model, but that plan was scaled back to a souped-up object database. Computer Associates cites sales automation, travel kiosks and telecommunications as naturals for Jasmine- based applications. Now out at beta sites is Computer Associates’s promised CA-OpenIngres/CA-Unicenter/ManMan-X combination, codenamed Rainbow, which will be launched under another name. A CA-OpenIngres 2.0 beta program is expected at mid-year.
