OData is an open specification with standardized ways of accessing, updating, inserting and deleting data and exposing metadata. It has clients on multiple platforms including JavaScript, PHP, Java, Ruby and .NET. OData extends the commonly used REST protocol and provides clients with the metadata required to find all tables and information about the fields and relations between them. It is built on top of other standards, among them HTTP, JSON, AtomPub and XML.

Data Abstract servers and Relativity Server let you expose your regular Data Abstract services with all associated business logic as OData services, giving you and your customers a cross platform way of accessing its data from non-Data Abstract applications and from platforms not (yet) directly supported by Data Abstract.

Watch the video above for more information on OData Publishing with Data Abstract, or read more in-depth instructions on how to set up OData Publishing in your own servers on the Wiki.