OpenROAD Application Development and Maintenance
| Event | Date | Spaces left |
|---|---|---|
| OpenROAD Application Development and Maintenance - London (Virtual) | Unlimited | |
| OpenROAD Application Development and Maintenance - London (Virtual) | Unlimited |
OpenROAD Application Development and Maintenance (Instructor-led)
This paid for instructor led OpenROAD course provides all that you need to begin developing 4GL, object-oriented, low-maintenance business applications of any type and complexity.
| Instructor-led | Yes |
| Duration | 5 days |
| Course charge | Yes. Please email the Actian Education team to discuss further |
| Product version | OpenROAD 6.2 |
| Course code | OpenROAD |
At the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand and assess the role that OpenROAD can fulfill in your organisation
- Develop high-quality display screens that interact fully with the database
- Write effective, reusable, correctly partitioned 4GL code
- Write applications that reflect users' requirements
- Understand and exploit OpenROAD's system object hierarchy
- Understand and exploit OpenROAD's system object hierarchy
- Develop applications adaptable for use in OpenROAD ApplicationServer and EClient
- Maintain existing OpenROAD applications
Course Style
This course provides you with all the knowledge and skill you need to:
- Develop OpenROAD applications and functionality to current display standards
- Maintain existing OpenROAD applications
- Provide high-quality, low-cost interfaces to your database data
- Assess the cost-benefit of OpenROAD compared to other technologies
The course is a mixture of lecture and demonstrations with hands on practical exercises for all key topics
Who Should Attend
IT staff designing, developing or maintaining business applications to be developed or prototyped in OpenROAD. Managers or IT staff who need to understand or assess the OpenROAD tools and capabilities.
This course is an essential prerequisite for anyone undertaking other OpenROAD training: OReServer; ORUpdate.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have attended the IngresSQL course (Introduction to Ingres and Ingres SQL), or should have equivalent experience.
Key Topics
Day 1
- OpenROAD concepts
- User Model and Data Model
- UserClasses and Database
- Building a Working Display
Days 2-5
- The OpenROAD IDE
- Display Fields and Features
- Template-driven Development
- Exploiting Object-Oriented capabilities
- System Class Methods and Attributes
- Display, System and User Events; the Event Queue
- Programming the 4GL and SQL
- Variables and Procedures
- Multi-Window Applications
- Application Debugger and Utilities
- Array-handling and Tablefields
- Selection, Validation and Guidance
- Bitmaps and StringObjects
- Exploiting Field Arrays
Next Course
IT staff developing or maintaining OpenROAD Application Server or EClient applications should attend the OpenROAD Application Server/EClient course.
Developers who will be building applications in OpenROAD might like to attend the OpenROAD Advanced course