UK software house James Anthony Consultants Ltd, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, is beta testing an application development tool, jBase, for translating Pick applications to Unix. It uses an intermediate language – jBC – which outputs C object code from Pick Basic, alongside what the firm calls a jedi library, which provides an interface between an application and a database, disk subsystem or network. James Anthony claims jedi will soon be able to communicate with object-oriented databases via the generation of C++ code. Versions for MS-DOS and other proprietary environments are also under way, the firm says. jBase ships in the summer, but no prices were given.
