You can use OpenROAD Workbench to develop applications that interact with databases. During the development phase it is common for applications to be stored in the same database, or repository, as the tables against which they operate. (That is, by default, the database is assumed to store both the application and the data that the application accesses.) Therefore, to begin a development session, you must start Workbench and then define a database connection.

After OpenROAD is installed, you can start the Workbench development system directly from the desktop, from the command line, or from an image file. For instructions, see the appropriate procedure, following.