Actian- OpenROAD – 4GL App Development

What is OpenROAD?

OpenROAD is a database-centric, object-oriented, 4GL rapid application development (RAD) tool that lets you develop and deploy mission-critical, n-tier business applications against databases such as Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 UDB.

Developers using the newest release, OpenROAD 6.2, will find a much improved platform that can easily restyle existing applications, extend and customize business objects, field types and frame types and add new behaviors that previously either required a lot of code or simply weren’t possible.

Key Benefits

Actian OpenROAD is a rapid application development and flexible deployment solution. With OpenROAD, developers can quickly build and deploy sophisticated high performance and high availability business applications on a variety of platforms, accessing a broad range of data sources. As a result, you can react to business changes faster and protect your investment in existing mainframe and client server data and applications.

• Rapidly and cost effectively build applications that meet today’s high performance and availability needs

• Quickly deploy those applications across a variety of platforms

• Protect existing system and database investments by integrating them with new applications

• Re-use existing and third-party components, speeding development further

• Decouple business logic from presentation and database functions increasing performance and availability incrementally and inexpensively

• Re-deploy applications to other platforms without changing code

• Easily expose business logic as a web service

OpenROAD Features

Tagged Values/Custom Extensions

Customize OpenROAD more richly, with simpler code

Codeless 1-Pass Application Restyling

Restyle existing applications without writing new production code

SetupFrame

Predefined frame setup will reduce custom runtime and setup time

Customizable Field and Frame Behaviors

Speed up customization and keep business logic free of display code

Userclass and Display Generator

Leverage database information to deliver improved display functionality

LoadnRun

Managed OpenROAD client deployment from a central server

Unicode support

Allows existing applications to support national characters via UTF8 with little to no code changes

Syntax Highlighting

Script editor supports syntax highlighting of 4GL and SQL