This new tool is designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost involved in building links between data repositories. It achieves this by having a Java code generation engine at its heart. This engine takes a formal mapping document as input and outputs a Java transformation program.

The use of Java results in an innovative solution to the old problem of how to migrate data between systems. Java's "write once run anywhere" (also known as "write once, test everywhere"!) capability now even extends to the database server. Modern database servers can act as Java servers and thereby allow data migration to take place entirely within the server! General availability of OpenMigrator is planned for June 1999.