The eClient is packaged as a Microsoft CAB (cabinet) file named oraxp.cab that must be hosted on your web server to be available to web clients. This file is in the eclient folder of your OpenROAD installation.

To package your OpenROAD applications for distribution over a web server, you must create (and optionally digitally sign) your own CAB file containing the appropriate OpenROAD application image, any other data files required by your application, and several required installation files. In addition to creating the CAB file for your application, you must also create and publish an HTML page that contains the OBJECT tags necessary to cause the client's Internet Explorer browser to download, install, and run the eClient runtime and your eClient application.

The OpenROAD eClient Packaging Tool (MakeCAB) provides an alternative to using the manual steps for creating CAB files. You can use this graphical interface to automatically package your OpenROAD applications in CAB format and generate the basic HTML page required to deploy your application.