Ingres OpenROAD: Rapid Application Development Solution
OpenROAD is a rapid application development 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.
OpenROAD is a complete solution that includes a component-based integrated development environment (IDE) delivering all the benefits associated with object-oriented development. OpenROAD also includes a runtime infrastructure to deploy distributed multi-tier applications via the OpenROAD Server. OpenROAD delivers all the tools needed to create robust, data-driven applications.
OpenROAD 2006 Delivers
The OpenROAD 2006 release delivers all the capabilities of OpenROAD with significant advances for the development and deployment processes. This release of OpenROAD extends the powerful capabilities of the product to deliver even greater developer productivity and a wider range of deployment options.
New for Development
With OpenROAD 2006, the developer workbench interface has been completely revamped, creating an even more productive environment for application developers. However, experienced OpenROAD developers will have the option of using the 'classic' OpenROAD interface to continue using their familiar interface. Additional improvements include an enhanced debugger, making it even easier for you to build, test, and deploy OpenROAD applications.
New for Deployment
OpenROAD 2006 now allow client-side interfaces to access OpenROAD business logic from outside the corporate firewall - using a .Net client, a Java client, or an browser-based client using HTTP for communication. This new functionality gives you even more choices for deployment with OpenROAD.
- 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
