Jazelle: History, status and future plans

The data management system Jazelle has been created as a successor to earlier HEP data managers such as YBOS and ZEBRA. While it has many similarities with these systems, it also has many enhancements such as self-documenting data descriptions, mnemonic access to all data, relational data structures, powerful machine-independent IO facilities, including network IO, and many mechanisms for presenting data to the physicist in an intuitive manner. The emphasis has been on producing a powerful, user friendly, data management system which can be accessed from many languages as a natural extension of those languages. 6 refs., 7 figs.