Main features of the OBERON project are the following:

- maps the context domain closer to the real-world

Allows real object abstraction using the object class paradigm: lets to define categories of similar objects (or classes) and to create their instances with behaviors and internal states so that each object in the real domain can have a direct representation with a "business" object within the software application domain. Provides tools to create and deploy new applications that encompass business processes.

- represents a structured repository for documents and information (metadata) related to a general application domain:

Any type of job activity (developing plans, overseeing projects, coordinating team members, managing time, supervising people, tracking critical assignments) can contribute to information and documentation overload.
Oberon is designed to manage business objects which collect any type of information and documents from any real context.

- manages the lifecycle for domain objects:

Allows a customizable lifecycles for each object instance; that is, objects of the same type can have different life cycles at the discretion of their creator.

- reduces the application development time:

The definition of application domain along with all its components like actor users, access privileges, classes, properties, processes, document types, information flows, etc. can be very quick and allows you to release the software for production systems faster than custom development. This is true even for future changes improvements or system integration.

- allows an advanced user profiles management:

Allows users to work together easily and efficiently, collaborate with confidence over the Internet with a multilayered security, deliver proactive information, such as instantly informing partners of new product requirements, resulting in smarter business processes.

- supports web-oriented deployment:

Gives users without extensive technical development skills the ability to create business applications able to publish and share information via web interfaces.

- supports SOA integrations

By integrating Web Services, the access to the object data and documents about a Business-Services running in production is guaranteed at any time.

- guarantees compatibility with common transactional relational databases

Adopts the standard SQL (employs the JDBC drivers); this let you to exploit the power common relational / transactional database for query performance and security.

- provides a new query language for manipulation of infrastructure, schemas and objects

The OOQL (Oberon-Object-Query-Language) language allows to perform all administrative and domain object actions and to execute command-line queries in addition to the java APIs.

- includes a graphical engine to generate charts from xml data