NaturalONE is a preconfigured development environment which is able to assist you during the entire development lifecycle. Out of the box, NaturalONE provides the necessary application development tools, testing capabilities, automated documentation generation capabilities (NATdoc) and a Natural execution environment. As soon as you start NaturalONE, the local Natural runtime is available to you. You can use it to execute and debug Natural applications, without interfering other developers working on the same application. The NaturalONE workspace keeps the sources of your application, and the local Natural runtime is used for cataloging and executing objects. The major benefit of the local Natural runtime is that you can start with your local development shortly after installing NaturalONE.

However, if you already have a Natural server environment in use, then you can connect to this Natural server environment using the Map command of the Natural Server view. After offloading the application to your local workspace, you can start to develop this application offline. After finishing the development, you can put the developed parts of your application back to the Natural server to make them available to other developers. See also Deploying a Project.