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 and a runtime infrastructure to deploy distributed multi-tier applications.
OpenROAD is a complete solution that includes a component-based integrated development environment (IDE) delivering all the benefits associated with object-oriented development and a runtime infrastructure to deploy distributed multi-tier applications.
OpenROAD 6.2
OpenROAD 6.2, the latest version, is available for Windows today and being rolled out for Linux and Unix. It extends UTF-8 support added in the Windows-only 6.0 release to UNIX/Linux. This functionality enables applications to seamlessly reach global markets. OpenROAD 6.2 has been comprehensively enhanced to make application development easier and provide an unprecedented level of control over the application user interface. The new Property Changer takes the pain out of giving existing applications a fresh, modern look and feel.
OpenROAD 6.2 users will also be able to use Loadnrun. Loadnrun is a new easy-to-deploy option providing live updates for your Windows OpenROAD applications. Loadnrun was designed to ease migration to new releases of OpenROAD and new versions of user applications without disturbing existing deployment environments. Loadnrun allows installation and administration of software and applications from a central, administrative location.
OpenROAD 6.2 users will also be able to use Loadnrun. Loadnrun is a new easy-to-deploy option providing live updates for your Windows OpenROAD applications. Loadnrun was designed to ease migration to new releases of OpenROAD and new versions of user applications without disturbing existing deployment environments. Loadnrun allows installation and administration of software and applications from a central, administrative location.
OpenROAD 6.0
Businesses now are required to comply with standards and integrate Unicode-based technologies such as Java. Today’s applications must support different character encodings like ASCII, Latin-1, Windows 1252 or UTF-8. Most encodings can represent only a few languages, but UTF-8 handles any language, including Chinese, French and Arabic.
OpenROAD 6.0, available only on Windows, enables OpenROAD developers to enhance their applications to meet these new business requirements. The functionality provided with OpenROAD 6.0 will be available on UNIX/Linux in OpenROAD 6.2.
OpenROAD 6.0, available only on Windows, enables OpenROAD developers to enhance their applications to meet these new business requirements. The functionality provided with OpenROAD 6.0 will be available on UNIX/Linux in OpenROAD 6.2.
OpenROAD 5.1
The OpenROAD 5.1 release delivers general-purpose system classes for XML support, to allow creation and parsing of arbitrary XML documents without the need to use 3GL Procedures or External Class Libraries. It provides a new XML based export file format that is documented, human readable, produces clean differences between different revisions of a OpenROAD 4GL source files, allow changes to be merged, and allow OpenROAD source assets to be managed by many different Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems. This release of OpenROAD continues to extend the powerful capabilities of the product for the developer.
OpenROAD 2006
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.
In this section you will find downloads for the enterprise edition. The community edition of OpenROAD, named Empire, is available here.
In this section you will find downloads for the enterprise edition. The community edition of OpenROAD, named Empire, is available here.