Many organizations continue to find the simplicity of client/server applications the best way to build and deliver business application content to the desktop. OpenROAD, with its native support of SQL, allows client/server applications to be built without cumbersome calls to database drivers. An OpenROAD application can connect automatically to the database of your choice, and programmers can write SQL directly into the application code to fetch information from the database and place it in local variables, object classes, or even directly on the form. Updating the information in the database is just as easy.

Organizations looking to share business logic between multiple applications or support different types of client interfaces should consider deploying business logic in the OpenROAD Server. These interfaces include rich OpenROAD desktop or eClient browser applications and ASP, JSP, Java, .NET, Web services and more. The high-performance middleware solution of the OpenROAD Server provides increased scalability through load balancing, database connection pooling, and failover capability and can run on any client interface.