JADE is a fully redesigned and more feature complete managed file transfer tool than SOSFTP. JADE is built upon experience gained from SOSFTP and includes a number of major improvements. JADE is backward compatible to SOSFTP.
- JADE's application architecture is more open to integrating new data sources and protocols than that of SOSFTP.
- JADE also uses better and newer java libraries for file transfer such as jcraft.
- JADE represents a paradigm shift from SOSFTP: whereas SOSFTP can only send and receive files from a host where SOSFTP is installed, JADE can transfer files from server-to-server without touchdown.
- Operation of JADE is basicallly made up from copy and move steps.
- For example, if a user wants to send files from a host where JADE is installed to a remote host via FTP, JADE's "source" will be localhost and its "target" will be the FTP server.
- If a user wants to receive files from a remote FTP server, the "source" will be the FTP server and the "target" localhost.
- Operation of JADE is basicallly made up from copy and move steps.
Apart from architecture improvements JADE incorporates a number of major bug fixes and performance improvements.
The SOS GmbH stopped ongoing development of SOSFTP in May 2012 to concentrate ongoing efforts on JADE. Bugfix releases of SOSFTP have been continued up to version 1.7.4189 (July 2014), which was the last planned general release of SOSFTP. Further bugfixes will only be available to commercial customers that have purchased support for SOSFTP and only up to July 2016.